The Beuchler Family had a farm in the area of present-day Oak Grove, which gave name to a railroad station in the 1880s (shown above with Fidler's Store in the background)

Next to Beuchler station, existed one of the most dangerous places along the railroad, Beuchler Cut, where trains coming from both east and west were unable to see each other. During the winter, the cut had to be plowed and shoveled out. Men who helped to shovel out the cut received 40 cents an hour (as the men are seen doing in the January 24, 1936 photo below).

One recorded accident in Beuchler’s Cut came from a story that Captain John William Barr, a foreman in the car shop at Rausch Gap in 1872 told. John Proud, who was the master machinist of the Rausch Gap Machine Shop from 1866-1872; could have been an engineer for a brief period of time.

According to the story that Barr tells, John and his brother Anthony had a collision at Beuchler’s Cut, which today is parallel to Oak Grove Road in Pine Grove Township, Schuylkill County and used as a driveway. Yet the correspondence between the railroad company officials in a December of 1863 report an accident with the two engines the “Schuylkill” and the “Susquehanna” between the towns of Ellwood and Pine Grove, which would be in the area of Beuchler’s Cut. John’s brother, Anthony, was at fault and resigned his position as engineer (later moving to Cressona, Schuylkill County). This correspondence only states that Anthony had an accident, but never in the transcribed version of the letters does it state that his brother John took part in the collision.

Beuchler also had a one-room school house, that later gave way to Oak Grove’s brick school. The Oak Grove Union School was constructed about 1874, out of bricks from Daniel Sheidy of Pleasant Valley. It only had one room until 1911 when another frame room was added because of the amount of children in the area. The old brick and frame schoolhouse was torn down in the 1990s.

Another important place at Beuchler was the Fidler’s Store, which was housed in the residence of Paul Fidler of Oak Grove, built in 1925. Fidler’s Store was an old fashioned general store having anything you’d need from gasoline to penny candy and even sewing needles. In the newsletter called Our Town in May of 2003 it is stated: “Customers would say that Paul had ‘the best cheese you could buy around.’ Longhorn Cheese that is, and Paul could cut it off the big cheese log almost to the pound with his big butcher knife.” The store lasted into the 1980s, closing soon after due to larger businesses in the area.