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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted Pennsylvania Railroad Station located in the town of Mt. Union, Huntingdon County in 1908. |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted Pennsylvania Railroad Depot in the town of Mt. Union, Huntingdon County in the early 1900's. Anthony Imperioli: my grandfather tried to buy the station and ground...RR would not sale.....years later they tear it down....go figure???? |
This would be the depot before the tracks were elevated.
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted Pennsylvania Railroad Depot along Pennsylvania Avenue in the town of Mt. Union, Huntingdon County in the early 1900's. |
And this is the elevation work.
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted The soon to be completed subway under construction for the Pennsylvania Railroad in Mt. Union, Huntingdon County in the very early 1900's. Prior to completion, the main line ran along the tracks located on Pennsylvania Avenue (East Broad Top). (Photo form Bill Pyles via https://www.facebook.com/groups/181311765268540/) |
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| 1959/61 Newton Hamilton and Mount Union Quads @ 24,000 |
The above topo map did not label the tracks that stayed on this side of the Juniata River and headed south. So, I checked my 1928 RR Atlas. It was the East Broad Top Railroad (EBT). I recognize that name because the EBT is now a tourist railroad that is famous for using steam locomotives on its trains from Rockhill, PA. See Rockhill, PA, for information about the EBT route.
The EBT terminated at the Pennsylvania RR in this town. Since the EBT was a narrow-gauge railroad, a gantry crane was used to change the trucks under the freight cars as part of the interchange.
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| Robert Wanner posted That overhead timber transfer building with the lift crane in Mt Union on the East Broad Top R.R. & Coal Company that made it possible to exchange the trucks of standard gauge cars to a set of narrow gauge trucks to expedite delivery on line. Great innovation for the small railroad. Photo by Fred Cupp in 1950. [TotalRacing diagrams how the standard-gauge trucks were replaced with narrow-gauge trucks using the timber transfer crane.] |
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| C Stewart Rhine commented on Robert's post 1955 photo by Charlie Mahan. |
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| Bev Smith commented on Robert's post Jack Fornadley: A Reading box car- part of the “alphabet route” west. I guess we should add EBT to the alphabet routing? |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Co. Engine # 3 along Pennsylvania Avenue near the Station in Mt. Union, Huntingdon County in 1945. (Photo from Dorothy Cramer via https://www.facebook.com/groups/181311765268540/) George John Drobnock: Location on Pennsylvania Avenue, Mount Union. The yard Shifter is on the fourth track, near the wall constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1905 for the East Broad Top Railroad. The PRR provided an agreement stating the wall would be the responsibility of the railroad and its successors. Between 1904-1905 the PRR purchased 20 feet from the properties fronting the railroad. |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted East Broad Top Railroad Mail Drop at Pennsylvania Avenue and Jefferson Street in Mt. Union, Huntingdon County. |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted Train Wreck in the town of Mt. Union, Huntingdon County in February of 1917. Twenty-one people were killed including nine mmbers of one family on the way to a funeral of a relative. The cause was listed as missed signals during a heavy fog. All of the dead were occupants of the sleeping car Bellwood. So powerful was the impact that the two last sleeping coaches of the all-steel train were wedged so tightly together that they had to be cut apart. Every passenger in the rear Pullman of the express train, the steel Bellwood, was killed outright. The Bellwood split in two, against the next steel Pullman, the Bruceville, which cut into the Bellwood like a knife. The living in the Bruceville and the dead in the Bellwood were imprisoned by the telescoping of the latter sleeping car, making rescue work and identification difficult. The nine members of the family of Chester A. Minds, a coal operator of Ramey, Pa., and a former football star of the University of Pennsylvania were on their way to Brooklyn, where Mrs. Minds's Father, William Caflisch, died Sunday. They boarded the train at Tyrone, buying tickets for Utica, where, it is thought, they intended joining other members of the family. Others killed included Mrs. A. F. Delling who was only a Bride for a short time, Mr. and Mrs. Fanning who were on their honeymoon and bound for New York and Frank Landry who was on his way home from St. Vincent's College. (Text from http://www3.gendisasters.com/) George John Drobnock: Location South Jefferson and Canal Street (near Water Street) Mount Union Pa. Current location of the Sheetz Store. [So we are looking at Jefferson St. Based on the topo map above, I think the depot was just east of Division St.] |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted [same description as above] |
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| Jackson-Township historical preservation posted [same description as above] |
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