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	Allegheny Portage Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The railroad used ten inclined planes--five on either side of the summit of the Allegheny Ridge.
		In 1854 the portage railroad was rendered obsolete by the construction a locomotive railroad over the Alleghenies by the Pennsylvania Railroad, a private company.
		On July 31, 1857, the Pennsylvania Railroad bought the portage railroad from the state, abandoning most and using the rest as local branches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Allegheny_Portage_Railroad (527 words)

	The Allegheny Portage Railroad, Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The era of modern railroad building had come everywhere in the United States, and new facilities were superseding earlier ones.
		In 1857 it sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad the Main Line of its Public Works from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, including the Old and the New Portage; and service on both of these was finally abandoned.
		The Allegheny Portage Railroad connected East and West for twenty years of prosperity, bringing great wealth in trade and manufacture to the people and contributing its full share to the economic development of the Commonwealth.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/portage/page4.asp?secid=31 (657 words)

	The Allegheny Portage Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Allegheny Portage Railroad, which began its steep climb of Allegheny Mountain a little westwards of Hollidaysburg, an old town four miles south of modern Altoona, and then descended on the western slope to Johnstown, was a great technological feat.
		Like the Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad it was a division on the Pennsylvania Canal's Main Line, which ran from the great city on the Delaware to the great city at the Forks of the Ohio.
		Early thought of a railroad across the mountain to connect canals built to its east and west foothills had occurred to Postmaster John Blair of Blair's Gap in the spring of 1824.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/portage/page1.asp?secid=31 (457 words)

	Portage Borough and Portage Township, Cambria County Pennsylvania
		The town of Portage began in 1829 when a school was built there for children from the surrounding farms.
		The Portage Railroad was the outcome of a desire to make commercial transport available between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
		In the 1870s the first coal mines were opened in the Portage area, and soon the town became a center for supplying the needs of coal mining companies and their workers.
	www.cambriapenn.com /communities/Portage.htm (467 words)

	Laurel Highlands/Southern Alleghenies Region : Pennsylvania's Railways
		The first railroad tunnel was built for the Allegheny Portage Railroad, near Johnstown, between 1831 and 1834.
		The first railroad passenger coach built of steel was constructed in Altoona in 1864.
		The Rockhill Trolley Museum is adjacent to the railroad.
	www.parailways.com /regional/laurelhighlands.html (283 words)

	Allegheny Portage Photo Essay
		The Allegheny Portage Railroad linked the eastern and western sections of Pennsylvania's Main Line of Public Works, a system of canals, slack water, inclined planes, and railroad levels linking Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
		The Allegheny Portage National Historic Site centers on the facilities at the top of Plane No. 6, where the portage railroad reached the summit of the eastern slope of the Allegheny Mountains.
		The thousands of stone sleepers used in construction of the levels on the Allegheny Portage Railroad, including this one, were quarried directly from limestone out croppings that lined the route.
	www.andrew.cmu.edu /user/vck/portage.htm (664 words)

	PRR Bibliography Item Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It commemorates the unveiling of the Portage Railroad Monument on the William Penn Highway, near Cresson, PA on October 1, 1929.
		Also included are comments on the Allegheny Portage Railroad, which were written by Charles Dickens and published in American Notes after his 1842 trip from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh over the Main Line of Public Works.
		A brief tribute to “John Stevens, Father of the Pennsylvania Railroad” is also presented, and the booklet ends with “Transportation Progress In Portage Railroad Territory,” which contrasts the Pittsburgh Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1930 to the Portage Railroad and the Western Division of the Pennsylvania Canal during 1834 to 1853.
	lib.sdstate.edu /PRR/PRR_Company13.html (374 words)

	Pennsylvania Outdoor, Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
		Description: The Allegheny Portage Railroad was the first railroad constructed over the Allegheny Mountains.
		This inclined plane railroad operated between 1834-1854 and was considered a technological wonder in its day and played a critical role in opening the interior of the United States to trade and settlement.
		Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site is located in southwestern Pennsylvania approximately 12 miles west of Altoona.
	www.pennsylvaniaoutdoor.com /aprnhs.htm (221 words)

	Portage Pennsylvania Brief History
		The definition of "Portage" is to transport overland between bodies of water.
		The genesis of the Portage Area began out of such a necessity to connect Philadelphia and Pittsburgh for commerce purposes in the 1800’s.
		The portage would involve a 1,400 foot rise in elevation from the east and nearly 1,200 feet from the west.
	www.portagestationmuseum.org /history.htm (443 words)

	Jay Pete Goes To Horse Shoe Curve At Altoona, PA
		The Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Columbia & Philadelphia Railroad were part of a state plan for this system.
		The Pennsylvania Railroad was chartered in 1846 and in 1852 opened a line from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh using the tracks of the state owned Allegheny Portage Railroad.
		The Allegheny Portage Railroad had reduced the time it took to move people and goods over the mountains but it still required up to three days to cross over and hooked up to another railroad.
	www.angelfire.com /va3/jaypete/curve.htm (698 words)

	Treasures Along The Rail - Fall & Winter 1996 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This trail, located at the summit of Cresson Mountain on the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, is a five mile trail with 1.5 miles on an abandoned rail line.
		Conquering this barrier involved as unusual method called a "portage railroad." This type of railroad, resembling a giant staircase, moved rail cars over the mountains by lifting and lowering them from one level to another using a series of inclinded planes.
		The Allegheny Portage Railroad operated from 1834 - 1857 and included the first railroad tunnel in the United States - the Staple Bend Tunnel constructed 1828 - 1834 was 901 ft. long.
	www.fay-west.com /railtreasures/fallwinter96/trail08.shtml (335 words)

	WalkingBuddies.com » Allegheny Portage Railroad - National Historic Site in Pennsylvania
		As contractors for Section 7 of the Allegheny Portage Railroad, brothers James and Thomas Etherington (Dr. E.) Appleton were responsible for one of the greatest engineering acheivements of the APRR.
		Interpretive exhibits along the Portage Railroad historic trace and at the tunnel entrances tell the story of the tunnel and the Portage Railroad.
		The Lemon House was a tavern located adjacent to the railroad and was a common rest and dining stop for railroad passengers.
	walkingbuddies.com /home/?p=85 (953 words)

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		The railroad portaged canal boats over the Allegheny Mountains, which formed a barrier to the Pennsylvania canal system.
		An expert on both canals and railways, Robinson decided that short railroads could span the two rugged portions of the route that canals could not cross: eighty-three miles over the rolling countryside from Philadelphia to the Susquehanna River at Columbia and the thirty-six-mile crossing of the spine of the Alleghenies, from Hollidaysburg to Johnstown.
		Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad (P and C); the latter became known as the Allegheny Portage Railroad (APRR).
	www.explorepahistory.com /hmarker.php?markerId=653 (1163 words)

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		The portage railroad was a daring stroke of engineering that worked remarkably well during a time when railroads were still experimental.
		The portage railroad was abandoned afer 23 years of service when the Pennsylvania Railroad bought the Main Line canal system in 1857.
		The first attempt was the Allegheny Portage Railroad, built by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and opened in 1834.
	www.lionelcollectors.org /news/2002_Westylvania.html (1265 words)

	Two Generations on the Allegheny Portage Railroad: The First Railroad to Cross the Allegheny Mountains
		Entire communities developed around railroad depots?some prospered, while others died with the fortunes of the transportation tycoons who invested all of their finances into railroad construction.
		This remote mountain location was at the forefront of railroading technology and competition during the mid-19th century.
		The Allegheny Portage Railroad, one of the first in the country, was not just part of the industrial age?it was the start of the industrial age in America."
	www.railroadbookstore.com /rrbooks/Detailed/677.html (262 words)

	PRR Bibliography Item Description
		The next chapter, Canal Boats On The Alleghenies, presents a very brief history of the Public Works canal system that was constructed from Middletown along the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers to Hollidaysburg and along the Conemaugh and Allegheny Rivers to Pittsburgh.
		The majority of this chapter discusses the Portage Railroad, which cost $1.6 million to construct and began operation in 1834.
		In 1855 the New Portage Railroad was completed at a cost of $2.5 million, The New Portage eliminated the inclines enabling a steam engine to use a 2,000-foot tunnel to pass under the Allegheny summit.
	lib.sdstate.edu /PRR/Misc_LongFred.html (519 words)

	Cresson Area Chamber of Commerce
		The first settlers to the area were farmers who were later followed by workers for the Portage Railroad, Pennsylvania Railroad and coal miners.
		The Allegheny Portage Railroad was 36 miles in length connecting the Hollidaysburg Canal Basin with the Johnstown Canal Basin.
		The canal system and the Allegheny Portage Railroad operated until 1854 when it was replaced by the Pennsylvania Railroad.
	www.cressonarea.com /history.html (550 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site at Epinions.com
		The idea of a portage railroad is to move boats/barges on ground (to "portage" them) a rail line for some portion of their trip.
		In order to cross the mountains, it was necessary to portage the barges up and over mountains, and a series of stationary steam engines were positioned near Altoona which did just that.
		At the time, the steam engines on locomotives were not powerful enough to pull a train through the mountains, eventually however, trains did take over the whole route (and the portage railroad was closed and dismantled in the mid-1850's).
	www.epinions.com /park-review-6036-3C0A7178-3A1FF3BF-prod6 (1059 words)

	Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site Boundary Revision Act
		H. To revise the boundary of the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, and for other purposes.
		This Act may be cited as the `Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site Boundary Revision Act'.
		Lands and interests in lands added to the historic site under this Act shall be administered by the Secretary as part of the historic site in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
	www.theorator.com /bills107/hr4682.html (469 words)

	Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, a Pennsylvania State Park near Greensburg, Johnstown, Windber
		Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, a Pennsylvania State Park near Greensburg, Johnstown, Windber
		The Allegheny Portage Railroad was the first railroad constructed over the Allegheny Mountains.
		Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site (National Park Service) - Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site.
	www.stateparks.com /allegheny_portage_railroad.html (290 words)

	The Allegheny Old Portage Railroad 1834 - 1854 : Building, Operation and Travel between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Allegheny Old Portage Railroad 1834 - 1854 : Building, Operation and Travel between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown Pennsylvania.
		BAUMGARDNER, MAHLON J. The Allegheny Old Portage Railroad 1834 - 1854 : Building, Operation and Travel between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown Pennsylvania.
		A pamphlet originally published to commemorate a vist by the Pennsylvania Society, Sons of the American Revolution to Summit Mansion House near Cresson PA on 14 June, 1952.
	www.antiqbook.com /boox/mot/6008.shtml (127 words)

	JJ's Railroad Links - A
		Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site the first railroad to cross the Allegheny Mountains.
		The Portage Railroad was considered a technological wonder of its day and played a role in opening the interior of the United States to trade and settlement
		Pacific Railroad Museum located adjacent to the old Santa Fe main line and attempts to display the Station as it was in 1935.
	jj.railfan.net /links-a.html (930 words)

	Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		ALLEGHENY PORTAGE RAILROAD NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE [Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site] see National Parks and Monuments (table).
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site" at HighBeam.
		Travel Q&A: Make tracks for Altoona to view railroad history.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-x-alleghrr.html (243 words)

	Welcome To eParks - America's National Parks Store
		For more information on Allegheny Portage RR NHS, click here.
		The inclined plane railroad over the Allegheny Mountains ran for a distance of 36 miles between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
		Such were the exclamations at the opening of the Allegheny Portage Railroad in 1834.
	www.eparks.com /eparks/park_entrance.asp?park=103 (405 words)

	Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site.
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		The location of Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site on a world map.
		The location of a Visitor Center identified on a map of Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site.
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	AllRefer.com - Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, United States (U.S. National Park System) - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, U.S. National Park System
		Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table).
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
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	RailroadData.Com Link Detail: Pennsylvania - Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
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		Cresson, PA - The Allegheny Portage Railroad was the first railroad constructed over the Allegheny Mountains.
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	Location Information for the Portage Station Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Portage, Pennsylvania is located on Route 53 with Route 164 through the town.
		Portage grew up around Plane #2 of the Old Allegheny-Portage Railroad.
		Its industrial heritage included lumber mills and coal mines.
	www.portagestationmuseum.org /location.htm (66 words)

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