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Historical Images

Moosic Mountain (2004)

Number Five Plane
Number Six Plane
Number Nine Plane
Number Ten Plane
Number Eleven Plane - Old
Number Eleven Plane - New
Number Eleven Plane Tunnel & Runout
Ghost Plane (Plane 12, never completed)


Number Twenty One Plane

Artifacts from the PCC Gravity Railroad



This diagram below illustrates how a gravity plane worked. The three components of the plane are the actual lifting plane where the cars were hauled uphill, the engine house. It was usually a stationary steam engine. Some were water wheels mainly on the light track.  The third part is the runout, where the cars would coast to the next lifting plane with a 1 percent downhill grade.  On Moosic Mountain (Planes 8,9,10,11) these were close together because of the grade of the mountain. This should help explain the pictures on this page.
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