Lancaster County
A quarry named after somewhere else
A limestone quarry 4.09 miles from the Census centre of this borough is carried under the name of another borough entirely. It is held by Pennsy Supply with 16 people on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s record.
The quarry is genuinely in this county, and the name it trades under points at a different place.
A nearer one is not far off. The Rohrers Quarry works limestone 1.8 miles from that pit with 28 people, so the two sit close enough to share a road.
A bridge circle that reaches into another state
Beyond the quarries, the local crossings are worth reading. Within ten miles the National Bridge Inventory records 372 structures, and the circle crosses a state line — four of them are Maryland’s — so it is counted from every state file with structures inside it rather than from Pennsylvania alone.
Of those, 24 are coded below legal loads and 10 are county-maintained, with the nearest 1.52 miles away. The lowest rating among them is about three US tons and the lowest that clears the commercial floor about seventeen — and the nearest quarry to that pit, 1.8 miles off, loads over exactly these roads.
That last figure is the one that decides a lane. Seventeen tons admits an empty tandem dump and a modest load on top of it, so a crossing at that rating takes a truck part loaded rather than whole.
Stone, a rail yard and a mill inside seven miles
Beyond the bridges the mix is close-packed. A rail yard on the North American Rail Network maintained by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics sits 4.2 miles from that quarry, the Landisville Quarry 5.2 miles off at Mount Joy, and a flour mill 6.6 miles away at Lititz.
Wider out, the Talmage Quarry works 10.8 miles off at Leola, and the Wrightsville Quarry 10.9 miles away over in York County.
Farm traffic runs through the same roads, so a truck here rarely spends its life on one kind of load.
Between the Rohrers Quarry 1.8 miles from that pit and the Landisville Quarry 5.2 miles off, the runs are short and heavy and repeated, and around here they are threaded through farm lanes. The wear lands on springs, brakes and the driveline rather than on the odometer.
- Low miles but heavily worked.Expected on the short lanes between the Rohrers Quarry and the Talmage Quarry. We look at the driveline and the brakes first.
With eleven stone operations in one county the work moves between them, and a truck that stops suiting one pit is often simply surplus rather than finished.
The other half is farms. Between the Talmage Quarry 10.8 miles off and the mill at Lititz 6.6 miles away, a holding changing hands usually means a truck changing hands too.