Newport

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Although the borough of Newport has not seen a narrow gauge train in the better part of a century (the last one left in 1921 and pulled up the rails behind it) the satellite imagery shows that quite a bit of the railroad remains to the careful eye.

If one were to zoom in on the above map to the area just to the left of Keystone Way as it leaves Newport heading south (marked as highways 849 and 34) and just below the South 4th street label, one would find the area once occupied by the Newport and Sherman's Valley Railroad shops. It is little more than a widening in a dirt path now, but this is where the sheds, shops, sidings and scales were.

In Newport itself, the station was located in the northwest corner of the parking lot at the intersection of Walnut and Third (zoom in on the map using the buttons provided). The Pennsylvania Railroad tracks once ran down third street until the early 1900s when they undertook a large grade-reduction project. A part of the mainline is still evident to the northwest, and appears to have railcars parked on it.

Peach Street is between Third and Fourth Streets, and is little more than an alleyway. This was once the roadbed for the N&SVRR as it made it's way from the station house to it's shops complex. The tracks crossed Mulberry street and turned south southwest before crossing 4th street just to the north of the Little Buffalo Creek bridge. They continued past the shops complex and crossed Little Buffalo Road not far from the Keystone Way intersection. A dirt path follows the right of way.

The section of railroad from Newport to Loysville was the first to open, and the section from Newport to New Bloomfield Junction was the first to be taken up. All together the narrow gauge served the borough for which it was named for only thirty years. By the time the rails were removed the Newport and Sherman's Valley had been incorporated into the Susquehanna River and Western, although the narrow gauge locomotives would wear the N&SVRR logo until the very end.