Next is Five Mile Tree, where we will pass over the Down Track as it heads back to Mauch Chunk. With luck on a busy day, we can wave to a carload of passengers as it passes beneath us. Next is Five Mile Tree, where we will pass over the Down Track as it heads back to Mauch Chunk. With luck on a busy day, we can wave to a carload of passengers as it passes beneath us.
Distance must have been important to travelers on the gravity railroad since mile markers lined the railroad's route. A large tree near here had a "Five Miles" marker nailed to its trunk.
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