Mauch Chunk PA Mt Jefferson Switchback RR Power House Postcard Leighton Co

Vintage color postcard showing the Power House of the Mt. Jefferson Switchback Railroad at Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, now Jim Thorpe. The image features the powerhouse structure and tall chimney surrounded by wooded hills, with a pig resting in the foreground. This is a nice early transportation and industrial-history card connected with the famous Mauch Chunk Switchback Railway, one of the earliest railroads and tourist railways in the United States.