Pennsylvania railroads date back to 1827 when the Mauch Chunk Switchback Gravity Railroad began operations to serve a local mine at Summit Hill by moving coal on a downhill inclined plane, roughly 14-miles away to the Lehigh Canal in Mauch Chunk (today, known as Jim Thorpe). ...
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.(more) Jim Thorpe, borough (town), seat ofCarboncounty, easternPennsylvania, U.S., on the Lehigh River, in a valley of thePocono Mountains, 22 miles (35 km) northwest ofAllentown. It was created in 1954 with the merger of the boroughs of Mauch Chunk (“Bear ...