The following article appeared in The Daily Herald 75th Anniversary Edition in 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 train started out on schedule but with crewmen stopping to pick huckleberries, shoot rabbits, and other diversified activities, [it] generally kept passengers in an impatient mood, but it was all in a day’s work for members of the crew.
When the train left Tyrone, the first stop was Hamer’s Mill (Nealmont), Stover, Pennington, Warriors Mark, Dungarvin, Furnace Road, Loveville, 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 purposes by the railroad.
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