From the 75th Anniversary Edition of the Tyrone Daily Herald, April 16, 1962.
In 1887, the Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad, which hauled supplies of wood, iron ore, and other products from the area, was quite a busy stretch of railroad. The trains started out on schedule, but with crewmen stopping to pick huckleberries, shoot rabbits, and do other diversified activities, they generally kept passengers in an impatient mood. But it was all in a day’s work for the crew.
When a train left Tyrone, the first stop was Hamer’s Mill (Nealmont); then, Stover, Pennington, Warriors Mark, Dungarvin, Furnace Road, Love Ville, Marengo, Hostler, Pennsylvania Furnace, Musser, Fairbrook, and L. and T. Junction.
The ride may have been a little tiresome, but the scenery was beautiful.
This road, later known as the Fairbrook Branch of the Tyrone Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, operated until the mid-1920s, the road being abandoned and the rails and other track appliances, together with the steel girder bridges, were sold to a junk dealer. All that remains now is a road bed overgrown with saplings and briar bushes. The tracks are maintained as far as Stover and are used for car storage by the railroad.
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