Where hiking trails now welcome visitors to explore the slopes of Laurel Mountain, at the border of Westmoreland and Somerset counties, locomotives once pulled carloads of timber and quarried stone over the lofty ridge.
Source: The Tribune-Review
Historical program, hike will explore former Laurel Mountain railroad line
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