Hunter's Run and Slate Belt Railroad

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| caption = The HJ & SB RR connected to the Gettysburg and Harrisburg at the Hunter's Run junction.

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| locale = Mountain Creek valley{{Cite report |last=Way |first=John H |year=1986 |title=Your Guide to the Geology of the Kings Gap Area … |url=http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/pub/EG8.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928205658/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/pub/EG8.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 28, 2012 |number=Environmental Geology Report 8 |publisher=Pennsylvania Geological Survey |accessdate=2011-05-18}} (Way includes the 1889 Lehman map){{Rp|16a}}

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The Hunter's Run and Slate Belt Railroad was a railway line from the Hunter's Run junction of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway that ran southwestward along the south side of Mountain Creek to the Pine Grove Iron Works. The line serviced facilities for mining (e.g., Henry Clay iron mine),{{Cite report |year=1899 |title=Annual report of the Pennsylvania State College … |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TfUaAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA20 |format=Google Books |accessdate=2011-05-17 |quote=At the Henry Clay iron mine two miles above {{sic|Hunter}} Run Station, there is a large deposit of beautiful white clay that is now (1899) being mined and shipped to the clay works at Mt. Holly, 1898 Mt. Holly Brick and Slate Company where it is mixed with that from the Upper Mill. … The clay is hauled by wagon to Mr. Allen's clay refining plant at Henry Clay Station where it is washed and prepared for market. … Laurel ore pit in 1900 was 120x300 ft … Fuller Brick and Slate Company in operation since 1892}} for manufacturing (Crane's Siding clay refining plant),{{Cite book |last=Chambers |first=Theodore Frelinghuysen |title=The Early Germans of New Jersey |year=1969 |isbn=9780806300702 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q-r0DEsiLM8C&pg=PA346 |format=Google Books |accessdate=2011-05-15 |quote=[in 1815, Michael Ege] owned the Carlisle works, the Pine Grove furnace, Holly furnace and Cumberland furnace.}} and for recreation (Pine Grove Park for excursions). Portions of the railbed are a section of the Appalachian Trail as well as the majority of the Cumberland County Biker/Hiker Trail and the entire "Old Railroad Bed Road" that is the southeast border of Pine Grove Furnace State Park.{{Cite map |publisher=DCNR.state.pa.us |date= |title=Pine Grove Furnace State Park |url=http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/pinegrovefurnace/pinegrovefurnace_mini.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609220703/http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/pinegrovefurnace/pinegrovefurnace_mini.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 9, 2011 |accessdate=2011-05-13}}