East Brady, PA: 1928 Trail/Pennsy Red Bank Coaling Tower and Phillipston Turntable

Coaling Tower: (Satellite, since the Armstrong Trail goes right under it, there are quite a few photos.)
Turntable: (Satellite)

The Pennsy RoW that followed the Allegheny River is now the Armstrong Trail. Between the coaling tower and the turntable is the east portal of the Brady Tunnel.

Scoty Carion posted two photos with the comment:

Redbank Coaling Tower, near East Brady, Pa, USA. This tower would provide coal from local mines for steam engines on this Pennsylvania Railroad main line from Pittsburgh, PA to points north, including Buffalo, NY.

Google Maps location:

Coaling Tower

https://maps.app.goo.gl/MnMBoD1vA6dTVf6s5

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Tim Shanahan shared a Tracee Renee Barton post of seven photos.

Tracee Renee Barton posted the same photos in a different order and provided a video link.

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sarco64, Aug 2015

Joe Stobert posted six photos with the comment:

Red Bank Coaling Tower on Armstrong Trail just above Red Bank Creek, between East Brady and Templeton PA and Phillipston Turntable on Armstrong Trail at Phillipston PA near East Brady. Some added shots from my drone!

Clyde McGeary Fairbanks-Mooris coaling tower.
Pete Stephen Now the Armstrong Rail-Trail. A great trail. They have cleaned up the turntable. And the Brady Tunnel is now being restored.
Jeff Miller shared

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Joe's Drones and Exploring, Feb 2019

Two of the five photos posted by Rich Tallis in Jan 2022:

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Redbank Coaling Tower…awaiting grant funding to be rehabilitated.

 

Ralph Davis posted
This is a former coaling tower on the Pennsylvania railroad near Rimer Pa along the Allegheny River.  It must have been quite a sight back in the early 1900’s.  Not sure what the motive power was on this line, maybe the K4 ?

Dan Young: I believe it was built by Fairbanks Morris in 1929.

Justin Calvin: Pretty much everything made its way up this line. My buddy has a log book of all the motive power that was used on that line. It included a q2 at one point. But mainly L1s, k4s, G5s, I1s, and the occasional m1. I know m1bs made there way up that line in the 50s to haul Nixons train to oil city.

Peter Reszar commented on Ralph's post

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