The West Milton Train Station & Roundhouse

 The Roundhouse At West Milton

The roundhouse was  located just off old 15, right above West Milton. It's where the Milton trolley was brought in to for the Sesquicentennial, in 1967. It was closed shortly after that.  During the 200th anniversary celebration in New Columbia in 1975, tours of the roundhouse were held.

"But the heart of the village was the railroad. About seventy-five of its residents were employed in the roundhouse and shops. There were section and work train gangs and yard men; also ash and coal dock men, air men and oilers, train men and telegraphers. Four of the latter were employed at the West Milton tower, one each, at New Columbia and White Deer, three at Allenwood, and forty between West Milton and Newberry. 

In the course of a day as many as seventeen to nineteen passenger trains required servicing in addition to the freight trains. There was also an annex, a short line connecting the station with the Pennsylvania railroad terminal in Milton - the last of its four daily runs returning at midnight. 

West Miltonians remember the scramble to catch it after an evening in Milton, and the long hike when they missed it."

The Railroad Station at West Milton was torn down in 1983.

Location of the passenger and freight station in West Milton

West Milton R.R. Station, 1981

West Milton Train Station, 1959