SNYDER  COUNTY

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EXISTING STATIONS
Station
Name
Original
Railroad
Current
Location
Type Current
Use
Date
Built
Track
Status
Building
Material
More
Info
Hummels Wharf Replica 299 North Old Trail Road
(GPS: 40.827514, -76.837527)
C Business ???? None Wood  
Clifford 389 PA-24, Selinsgrove
(GPS: 40.814475, -76.869948)
C Business ???? None Wood
Selinsgrove 106 North High Street between
Chestnut and Snyder Streets
(GPS: 40.801239, -76.863112)
C Business 1882 In Use Wood
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station
Name
Original
Railroad
Notes
Adamsburg  
Beaver Springs This station and others on this line may have been built by the Sunbury & Lewistown RR depending on their dates of construction. Town was originally known as Adamsburg/Adamsburgh.
Beavertown This station was on the west side of South Center Street on the north side of the tracks at GPS: 40.752260, -77.169001.
Benfer  
Clement Station
(Shamokin Dam)
Phildelphia & Reading RR This station opened in 1888. It was the sole Snyder County station on the P&R/Reading RR. The station later served as junction of a spur south to the Pennsylvania Power & Light plant in Shamokin Dam, beginning in May 1946. The name of the station was changed to Shamokin Dam on 3-26-1947. Unknown when station was demolished and/or discontinued. The track was removed around 1983 and the right-of-way was obliterated by highway expansion in late 1980s. --note by Alexander D. Mitchell IV.
Clifford  
Kreamer This station was demolished in 1939.
McClure
Meiser Photo from 1917. This station was on Globe Mills Road. The station was built in 1871 by the Sunbury & Lewistown Railroad.
Middleburg This station was on Main Street at Railroad Avenue (GPS: 40.787978, -77.041571).
Pawling  
Paxtonville
(Benfer)
The railroad changed the name of this station from "Benfer" to "Paxtonville" in 1905.
Raubs Mills Photo from 1917.
Selinsgrove The station here was destroyed by fire in 1881 and a new station (still standing) was built in 1882 as a replacement.
1895 SNYDER COUNTY RAILROAD MAP
Notes About Existing Stations...

Clifford (PRR) - Station is at Barry's Motor Kars and was moved there probably in the early 1950s. The owner has the original sign in storage and a reproduction sign displayed on the building.

Selinsgrove (PRR) - Station was built by PRR 1882, but freight section expanded in 1900s, from original PRR 1881 drawings and dates. It has housed Stahl Sheaffer Engineering Services since 2007.