A look back: March 4, 1986

Plans to revive the once-famous Switchback Railroad between Jim Thorpe and Summit Hill were revealed in a letter to the Summit Hill Borough Council from Fred C. Windbeck Jr. of Silver Spring, Maryland.

Windbeck grew up in the shadow of Mount Pisgah in then Upper Mauch Chunk and is employed by the U.S. Department of Education. He notified the borough he plans to become actively involved in the promotion of what he calls “a feasible project.”

Windbeck, who handles grantsmanship for the educational facility in Washington, is convinced if the necessary pre-planning is accomplished in the form of properly documented feasibility, economic and environmental studies, that corporate groups interested in historic planning will jump upon the bandwagon.