Aliance, OH: PRR's Depot and Tower: PRR vs PRR

(Satellite)  Some of the older pictures show the tower with the long side along the PFW&C.

Rick Fleisher posted
PRR at Alliance, Oh. Center is the PFW&C and crossing from the right is the C&P.

Raymond Storey posted, 2x
[Another study in different artists colorizing the same photo.]

We are looking timetable east on the PFW&C. C&P was the Cleveland and Pittsburgh. You can catch a glimpse of the roundhouse and coaling tower behind the depot on the PFW&C side. By 1928, both routes were owned by the Pennsy. A 1950s aerial photo shows the roundhouse is gone, but the turntable still exists. The depot existed in a 1952 aerial photo, but was gone in a 1971 photo.

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Rick Fleisher posted

AltoonaWorks posted
6/2017 - A doublestack train makes the turn from the Ft Wayne Line to the Cleveland Line at Alliance, Ohio.
David Andrew Wieting Flagpole on the right marks the location of a small stone marker that commemorates the brief visit by Abraham Lincoln through Alliance in 1861 on his way to DC for his Inauguation. He came east on the Panhandle through Columbus, then to Pittsburgh, then west on the Fort Wayne, then did what this freight is doing and headed north to Cleveland on the C&P. Then he took the Water Level Route to NYC. Pennsylvania rails were reached once again at Philly. At that time the NJ RR and Canal Co was not yet PRR controlled. Also, the present NEC mainline through Princeton Jct hadn’t been built. Instead, Lincoln’s train would have followed the D&R Canal between Kingston and Trenton, NJ. While Lincoln was President the current alignment was built, 1863-4.

David Andrew Wieting I say all that because recently the anniversary of that history trip was celebrated in 2011, and the more somber return trip in 2015. On the return trip his train did not pass through Pittsburgh and Alliance.

Elaine Luck posted
Shared from the Ohio Vintage Postcard Group
Andy Brandley http://www.alliancehistory.org/history.html

Dennis DeBruler By 1928, all the track you see was owned by the Pennsy. It is now owned by the Norfolk Southern. You can tell it is an old photo because it still has the junction tower and roofs over the platforms. http://towns-and-nature.blogspot.com/.../aliance-oh-prrs...