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Attraction

Staple Bend Tunnel

...in the United States and is now part of the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site. In operation from 1833 until 1952 when the Pennsylvania Railroad bypassed it, restorations to the tunnel have revitalized it into part of a five mile biking/walking trail that...


Original Document

A Trip on the Allegheny Portage Railroad, 1835.

...Portage Railroad from Johnstown to Hollidaysburg via the Allegheny Portage Railroad Packet Juniata, near Lewistown, August 21, 1835. Yesterday at Johnstown we soon despatched the ceremony of a good breakfast, and at 6 a.m. were in motion on the first level, as...


Image File

Old Portage Arch

Constructed in 1832, a stone, skew-arch bridge carried the Huntingdon, Cambria, and Indiana Turnpike over the Allegheny Railroad tracks on Plane #6, east of the Lemon House tavern. Today it is part of the Allegheny Portage National Historic Site.
Old Portage Arch, Allegheny Portage Skew Arch Bridge


Attraction

Gallitzin Tunnels Park and Museum SummerFest

...dect and operating railroad signal. View 1854 Allegheny Double Track/Double Stack Tunnels. Norfolk Southern's Mainline. Many trains daily. Close to the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site and the Horseshoe Curve attractions. Games, craft and food...


Image File

Inclined Plane #6 etching

...of Pennsylvania's Main Line of Public Works, the Allegheny Portage Railroad carried the combination canal boat and rail cars across the summit of the Allegheny mountains. This picture depicts the top of plane #6, today the center of the Allegheny Portage National...
Inclined Plane #6 etching


Image File

Canal boat being hauled up Plane Number 6, the Allegheny Portage Railroad,from Hollidaysburg to Johnstown, PA, circa 1845.

Constructed in the 1840s, the Allegheny Portage Railway used an ingenious, but expensive mix of boats, trains, tracks, and pulleys to hoist canal boats over the mountains that separated the eastern and western sections of Pennsylvania's Main Line of Public Works.
An etching of Portage Railroad, a boat on rails being pulled up a steep hill, into a large shed, carrying canal boats over the mountains, from Hollidaysburg to Johnstown. Railroad workers stand near the shed and on top of the boat.


Image File

Canal boats being pulled up hill on the Allegheny Portage Railroad, circa 1845.

...Roebling witnessed first-hand the perils of the Allegheny Portage Railroad's use of hemp rope to haul barges from the canal up the steep inclines of the Allegheny Mountains. Too often, the hemp snapped, sending barges on a free-fall down the mountainside. The...
An etching of a boat on rails being pulled up a steep hill, into a large shed. Railroad workers stand near the shed and on top of the boat.


Historical Marker

Allegheny Portage Railroad

Intersection of Rts. 53 and 164, Portage Twp.
...The railroad portaged canal boats over the Allegheny Mountains, which formed a barrier to the Pennsylvania canal system. Horses and mules pulled the first trains. Later steam locomotives were used. At the center of the line, Plane #2 served as the railroad headquarters.


Timeline Event

Legislature authorizes building of Main Line of Public Works, a canal system that includes the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad and the Allegheny Portage Railroad. System is completed in 1834.

1828
Legislature authorizes building of Main Line of Public Works, a canal system that includes the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad and the Allegheny Portage Railroad. System is completed in 1834.


Timeline Event

Staple Bend Tunnel, first railroad tunnel in America, is completed on the Allegheny Portage Railroad east of Johnstown.

1833
Staple Bend Tunnel, first railroad tunnel in America, is completed on the Allegheny Portage Railroad east of Johnstown.


Timeline Event

Construction begins on the Staple Bend Tunnel as part of the Allegheny, Portage Railroad, the first railroad tunnel built in the United States

1828
Construction begins on the Staple Bend Tunnel as part of the Allegheny, Portage Railroad, the first railroad tunnel built in the United States


Image File

Staple Bend Tunnel, Cambria County, PA, circa 1950.

Constructed between 1828 and 1834 to link inclined planes No. 1 and No. 2 of the Allegheny Portage Railroad, the 901-foot Staple Bend Tunnel was the first major railroad tunnel built in the United States.
Staple Bend Tunnel


Web Citation

U.S. Government: Teaching with Historic Places Lesson Plans

Excellent source of information for school age children on the Allegheny Portage Railroad


Web Citation

Have Fun With History

The history of the Allegheny Portage Railroad in the westward movement of settlers and commerce in central Pennsylvania in the mid-1800's.


Lesson Plan

Roebling and Suspension Bridges: A Thread of Steel

...hemp rope which was regularly breaking at the Allegheny Portage Railroad, and (2) in his building of the Brooklyn Bridge. Students will furthermore come to understand the basic types of bridges and, through a model activity, comprehend the forces acting on them.

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