Operation
At one time, passenger service was provided not only on the Lebanon and Tremont Branch, but on the Brookside, Lorberry, and Kalmia Branches as well to bring workers to the collieries. After the Reading bought up the West End collieries in the 1870s, it began offering service to its workers in the form of two miners' trains running north from Pine Grove. The "Lincoln miners' train" ran up the Lebanon and Tremont to Lorberry Junction, and then over the Lorberry and Kalmia branches, stopping at the Lower Rausch Creek, Lorberry, Lincoln, and Kalmia Collieries. The "Brookside miner's train" ran up to Tremont, where the miners transferred to a second train that ran down the Brookside Branch, serving the Rausch Creek (or East Franklin), Good Spring, East Brookside, and Brookside Collieries. After the Coal Strike of 1902, the Reading began hiring extensively in the Pennsylvania Dutch country to the south of the coal fields. New service was adopted to bring these men to work from their farms. A train ran up the Lebanon and Tremont from Lebanon to Pine Grove, converging at about 5:30 AM with two short trains from Outwood and Rock, on either side of Pine Grove on the Schuylkill & Susquehanna Branch. The cars of these three trains, together with a few more to accommodate passengers from Pine Grove, were assembled into one, which proceeded to the Lincoln Colliery. However, the Reading ceased to operate the miners' trains in 1908.
In 1942, a turning loop was built at the Indiantown Gap station to create a railhead for Fort Indiantown Gap. The former site of the loop is now an isolated piece of Swatara State Park.
By 1957, the Lebanon and Tremont Branch and what remained of the others only had freight service.
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