Editing Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania (section)

== Transportation ==

=== Highways ===
* [[Pennsylvania Route 61]], designated from 1963 to the present, previously:
** 1770 – 1808: King's Highway
** 1808 – 1911: [[Centre Turnpike]]
** 1911 – 1926: Pennsylvania State Highway No. 161
** 1926 – 1935: [[Pennsylvania Route 120|U.S. Route 120]]
** 1935 – 1963: [[Pennsylvania Route 61|U.S. Route 122]]
* [[Pennsylvania Route 54]]
** before 1929: Ashland Road
** 1929 – 1961: PA 54 via Ashland Road
** 1961 – 1966: designated as PA 45 via Ashland Road
** 1966 – 1999: reassigned concurrent with PA 61 east of Mount Carmel
** 1999–present: route changed to follow SR 2035, PA 901, SR 2042, SR 3002, and SR 4028 to rejoin its former route along PA 61.
* [[Pennsylvania Route 901]]
** Routed through Mount Carmel Township by 1996

=== Railroads ===
[[File:Philadelphia and Reading RR Station Mt Carmel PA c 1917.png|thumb|upright=1.3|Philadelphia and Reading RR Station in Mt Carmel, c.1917]]
* Danville and Pottsville Railroad → Philadelphia and Sunbury RR → <br>Shamokin Valley and Pottsville Railroad → [[Northern Central Railway]]
* Quakake Railroad → [[Lehigh and Mahanoy Railroad]] → [[Lehigh Valley Railroad]]
* Philadelphia and Reading Railroad → [[Reading Company]]
* [[Pennsylvania Railroad]]
* [[Shamokin Valley Railroad]]
* Shamokin-Mount Carmel Electric Railway (trolley line)

=== Public transportation ===
The [[Lower Anthracite Transportation System]] offers a two-route transit system weekdays and Saturdays from Mount Carmel with buses meeting in Coal Township to Mount Carmel and surrounding communities.  A third route, operated seasonally, operates to [[Knoebels Amusement Resort]].