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Pickering Valley Railroad
The Pickering Valley Railroad was a short line railroad in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It ran from Phoenixville to Byers, near Eagle, in Upper Uwchlan Township, a distance of approximately .〔Greenwood, A.L., "(The railroads of Chester County )", ''History Quarterly'', Tredyffrin Easttown Historical Society, February, 1955 Volume 7 Number 4, Pages 86–94.〕 The company was incorporated June 4, 1869, under the provisions of a special act of the Pennsylvania government approved April 3, 1869,〔(An Act to Incorporate the Pickering Valley Railroad Company ), P.L. 1869, 686 (1869).〕 and organized June 22, 1869, with the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company subscribing to the bulk of the stock.〔"(Pickering Valley Railroad was Completed on Sept. 1, 1871; Leased by the Reading )", ''Reading Eagle'', Aug 18, 1912, p. 18.〕 In or about 1870, the still-unbuilt railroad was leased to the Reading Railroad; it opened in September 1871.〔
The railroad's principal business was as a "milk run" line,〔East Pikeland Township Historical Commission, (Kimberton Area Heritage Action Plan ), 2012.〕 transporting agricultural products from local farms to Phoenixville, for connections with other railroad lines; it also carried iron ore from nearby mines to the Phoenix Iron Company in Phoenixville.〔(The Pickering Valley Railroad ), AbandonedRails.com; accessed 2014.01.27.〕 It played a role in the development of the area's graphite mining industry as well.〔See Miller, Benjamin L., ''Graphite Deposits of Pennsylvania'', Report No. 6, Topographic and Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, 1912, pp. 96-110.〕 The company was not a financial success: revenues barely covered operating costs, leaving nothing to pay to the investors〔 (an 1882 newspaper editorial complained that the company's stock was "worthless"〔(Editorial ), ''Phoenixville Messenger'', April 15, 1882.〕). When the lease expired in 1906, the line was more formally merged into the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad system,〔 becoming known as the Pickering Valley Branch of the Reading.〔
Passenger service was discontinued in 1934,〔 and the portion of the line from Kimberton to Byers was abandoned in 1948. The remaining track served the Phoenix steel mill (a portion was also briefly used by the Valley Forge Scenic Railroad〔"(A History of No. 58 )", Wilmington & Western Railroad; accessed 2014.01.28.〕) until abandoned by Conrail (successor to the Reading) in the 1980s. Little remains of the line today〔〔Tinsman, Mary Alfson, (Memorandum: French Creek Parkway Project ), May 16, 2011, CHRS, Inc.〕
==Accident==
The Pickering Valley Railroad was the scene of a significant wreck on the night of October 4, 1877. A torrential ("phenomenal"〔(Verdict of the coroner's jury ), reported in ''Railway World'', Vol. 21, p. 1028, October 27, 1877.〕) rainstorm had washed out a portion of the track near Kimberton, and a passenger train from Phoenixville, carrying about 130 people, including many returning from a Pennypacker family reunion, ran into the washout in the dark.〔 The locomotive plunged thirty feet, the first passenger car fell on top of the locomotive, and the second passenger car landed atop the first. Seven passengers and crew were killed, and several dozen injured.〔〔"(Disasters on Railroads; Trains thrown into washouts )", ''The New York Times'', October 6, 1877, p. 1.〕 A lawsuit arising from this accident rose to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, which affirmed the judgement for the plaintiff in the amount of $3,500.〔''Philadelphia & Reading RR. Co. v. Anderson'', 94 Pa. 351 (1880).〕 The wreck was Chester County's worst railroad accident ever.〔Eric Chandlee Wilson, "The Great Wreck of 1877", ''Chester County Day'', 1997.〕
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