This photograph shows the Summit Branch Hotel at the junction of the Northern Central Railroad and the Lykens Valley Railroad in Millersburg, Pennsylvania in northern Dauphin County.
This hotel and passenger depot served passengers transiting east and west on the Lykens Valley Railroad after making connections with the Northern Central Railroad at the western edge of the Coal Region.
The NCRR operated between Sunbury, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland along the Susquehanna River and Chesapeake Bay.
The Lykens Valley Railroad, while mostly carrying anthracite coal, also offered passenger service between Millersburg and Lykens.
Read more history from this spot in northern Dauphin County
A colorized postcard of Millersburg, Pennsylvania
Eyewitness account of railroad accident at Millersburg, Pennsylvania | June 1863
“Pleasant excursion” – A ride on the Lykens Valley Railroad in 1833
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