Three renewable and sustainable energy projects â including two in Berks County â have received grants totaling $85,000 from the Met-Ed Sustainable Energy Fund of the Berks County Community Foundation.
Recipients can be anywhere in the Met-Ed service area, and on Wednesday the foundation announced in a press release that the following projects have been selected:
Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust: $50,000 to create an off-the-grid education center called the Colebrookdale Childrenâs Educational Grove to showcase sustainable energy practices.
Dickinson College in Carlisle: $25,000 to construct, study and demonstrate a commercial anaerobic digestion system for the generation of renewable electricity from agricultural and food-processing wastes at a scale appropriate for an average Pennsylvania dairy farm.
110-year-old locomotive departing from Jackson for Pennsylvania preservation group
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
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JACKSON, MI – A mainstay in Jackson County for more than 60 years will depart from its Jackson station after its sale last week.
The Jackson City Council approved a plan at its Tuesday, Jan. 12 meeting to sell Locomotive 5030, a train engine located in R.A. Greene Park near the Jackson Wastewater Treatment Plant, to a Pennsylvania nonprofit and tourist railroad.
Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust, located in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, between Philadelphia and Reading, agreed to pay $50,000 over five years for the 1912 relic. It plans to restore the historic car built from steel from a nearby Pennsylvania foundry and assembled within 30 miles of the railroad there.
BOYERTOWN, Pa. Â- A local railroad is getting a helpful boost through donations to expand its educational programming.
The Colebrookdale Railroad has accepted a $2,500 donation from Ambler Savings Bank and a $15,000 donation from J.P. Mascaro & Sons through the Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program. We are proud to support the Colebrookdale Railroad year after year because of their commitment to the community and children s education, said Bonnie Eckenrode, the manager of the bank s Bally branch.
The railroad has gone through years of renovation to bring its historic trains to their original state and offer educational programming as well as other public attractions.Â
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