Heritage: Mifflin & Centre County Railroad
CT 1000, 1945: Eastern Region, Eastern Pennsylvania Division, Middle Division
Middle Division ETT, 1954: Eastern Region, Middle Division, Lewistown Secondary
Timeline
During the 1870s, shops were built at Lewistown Junction. There was a frame enginehouse with four stalls and a 50' turntable. (The turntable would later be upgrade to __' and again to 110'.)
In 1886, a new enginehouse was constructed, but it was consumed by fire in 1887. It's replacement was built by 1889 and was believed to have 12 stalls. By 1917 it had been reduced to six stalls and by 1928 it was down to three stalls. It remained in service until consumed by fire in 1967 or 1970.
1923 Sanborn Maps
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Distance from Main Line...
0.0 Shops
Listed in the PRR 1923 and 1945 CT1000's.
Turntable in 1956: |
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Machine shop: |
Sand house: |
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Master Mechanics office: |
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Yard office in 1970:
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Yard office in 1970: |
Brakeman's building: |
Bunk house in 1956: |
New ice house: |
MoW Bunk House: |
Old ice house: |
Oil house: |
Car Inspector's building #1: |
Car Inspector's building #2: |
Car Inspector's building #3: |
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Carpenter's Shop, Storehouse: |
Carpenter's Shop, Foreman's Office: |
Photos from a presentation given at a PRRT&HS annual meeting:
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0.0 American Viscose Corp.
American Viscose manufactured rayon fiber (primarily for rayon-belted automobile tires), polyester and Avistrap.
Shown on the 1910 and 1928 Sanborn maps.
Listed in the PRR 1923 and 1945 CT1000's.
Page 90 of Triumph IVoffers an excellent 1950 aerial photograph. The plant closed in 1972 following hurricane Agnes.
Pennsylvania Railroad Color Pictorial 3, p. 63, shows a BS12 shifting coal cars in/out of the plant in 1965... indicating the plant was busy enough to warrant two switches a day.
Penn Pilot offers a 1957 aerial view which provides a decent footprint for the plant, including substantial piles of coal reserves at the west end of the plant.
1928 Sanborn map, corrected to 1948: |
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One of 18 X37B box cars assigned to the Viscose plant: |
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American Viscose 44 ton locomotive:
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A switcher working the plant in 1972: |
0.2 Station
This references the back side of the main line station.
During the 1950s, the west end of the passenger station was reconfigured for less-than-carload (LCL) freight handling.
Shown on the 1910 and 1928 Sanborn maps.
Listed in the PRR 1923 and 1945 CT1000's.
Penn Pilot offers a 1957 aerial photo which clearly shows the LCL track to the back of the station.
"Merchandise Service" X40B LCL box car on the north side of the station, 1956: |
LCL delivery trucks at the dock on the west side of the station, 1956: |
1938 excursion on the Lewistown Branch: |
0.2 Scales
Shown on the 1910 and 1928 Sanborn maps.
Listed in the PRR 1923 and 1945 CT1000's.
1928 Sanborn map, corrected to 1948: |
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Scale House, 1956: |
Scale House, 1956: |
Circa 1981-82: |
Circa 1981-82: |
H. J. Stannert Sand Co.
Sand quarry along the south shore of the Juniata River.
Listed in the PRR 1923 CT1000. Not in the 1945 CT1000.
