The historic coal tipple on the property of the Renovo Heritage Park is one of the last of its kind in the state. At risk for decades, a team of volunteers is currently working to preserve this amazing structure for decades to come. Applications are underway with state preservation organizations in the hopes of listing it on the National Register of Historic Places. The site is currently on the Pennsylvania At Risk list at Preservation Pennsylvania.

A brief history of the coal tipple:

September 6, 1941

George S. Wert, General Superintendent of the Central Division of the PRR, announced that a contract had been awarded to the Ogle Construction Company of Chicago for the erection of a modern concrete, mechanically operated, coal station in Renovo. This structure was to replace to present wooden structure, which had been erected in 1907. This new coal wharf was to have two coal pockets. One pocket had a two hundred-ton capacity and the other a hundred-ton capacity, as well as, a bin capacity for sixty tons of wet sand and ten tons of dry sand. The structure permitted the unloading of both coal and sand directly from railroad cars and the ability to deliver both materials to locomotives, simultaneously, on two tracks. The hoisting capacity of the electrically operated machinery was between fifty and sixty tons an hour.