On Location Series
The On Location series takes a deep dive into a Pennsylvania Railroad location as indicated within the CT1000 - List of Stations and Sidings.
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Heritage: Mifflin & Centre County Railroad
CT 1000, 1945: Eastern Region, Eastern Pennsylvania Division, Middle Division, Milroy Branch
Middle Division ETT, 1954: Eastern Region, Middle Division, Milroy Secondary
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For most of the Bellefonte Central Railroad's life, State College was its western terminus.
In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower came to State College by train. His brother, Milton, was president of the Pennsylvania State College. You can read more in the article POTUS to Penn State.
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Beaver Springs was originally known as Adamsburg/Adamsburgh.
The 1884 Form 76 lists the location as Adamsburg (MP 23.4). It also lists C. P. Swegle & Co. (Loc 1572) and Helfrich & Smith (Loc 1573). Though not indated as part of the Adamsburg location, the 1884 Form 76 does list A. M. Smith No. 2 (Loc 1570) separately.
The 1923 CT1000 lists the location as Adamsburg with Rooke & Bucher and A. M. Smith (MP 23.2), A. Kreeger and Allen Fulz (MP 23.2), and a Station (MP 23.4).
The 1923 CT1000 lists the location as Beaver Springs with a Passing Siding (MP 23.1), Supplee-Wills-Jones Milk Co. (MP 23.2), James W. Herman (MP 23.2), and a Station (MP 23.3).
The 1945 CT1000 lists Dairyman's League Co-operative Ass'n., Inc. No. 1 (MP 23.2), James W. Herman (MP 23.2), and a Station (MP 23.3).
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The 1884 Form 76 lists Middleburg. Simonton Barber & Co. (Loc 1584) and Harriet Dunkelberger (Loc 1585).
| MP | 1900 CT1000 | 1923 CT1000 | 1945 CT1000 |
| 33.0 | W. B. Winey | Station | Station |
| J. M. & G. H. Steininger | |||
| 33.1 | W. B. Winey | W. B. Winey | |
| J. M. & G. H. Steininger | |||
| 33.4 | J. Paskus & Son, Inc. | Middleburg Tanning | |
| Storage | |||
| 33.5 | Passing Siding | ||
| Supplee-Wills-Jones Milk Co. | Dairyman's League Co-operative Ass'n., Inc. No. 2 | ||
| M. C. Romberger, Inc. |
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The 1884 Form 76 lists Selinsgrove. Separate entries exist for H. P. App (Loc 1594), Schoch Brothers (Loc 1596), and G. & H. D. Schnure (Loc 1597).
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The 1884 Form 76 lists Clifford.
The 1900 CT1000 lists Clifford (MP 40.8).
The 1923 CT1000 lists Passing Siding (MP 40.8), G. M. Witmer & Sons (MP 40.8), Station (MP 40.8), and Supplee-Wills-Jones Milk Co. and Public Delivery (MP 40.9).
The 1945 CT1000 lists Calvin A. Witmer (MP 40.8).
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The 1884 Form 76 lists Beavertown (MP 25.6). It separately lists Beavertown Passing Siding (Loc 1576) and J. S. Wood & Son (Loc 1577).
The 1900 CT1000 lists J. S. Wood & Son and W. B. Winey & Bro. (MP 25.6).
The 1923 CT1000 lists a Station (MP 25.4) and Passing Siding (MP 25.5).
The 1945 CT1000 lists a Station (MP 25.4) and Hill Brick Co., Inc. (MP 25.6).
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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
The LN destination is comprised of the Lewistown Secondary, Furnace Branch Siding, and the Milroy Secondary.
Where street addresses are indicated, the years in parenthesis indicate first and last years confirmed in street directories. Entites could have been at the address before and after these dates.
Read more: On Location: LN - Lewistown (Lewistown Secondary)
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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
The LN destination is comprised of the Lewistown Secondary, Furnace Branch Siding, and the Milroy Secondary.
Where street addresses are indicated, the years in parenthesis indicate first and last years confirmed in street directories. Entites could have been at the address before and after these dates.
Read more: On Location: LN - Lewistown, Pa. (Furnace Branch Siding)
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Conn. to Mont Alto Park Siding (MP 60.7)
Freight Station (MP 60.8)
W. B. Ledy (MP 60.8)
Mont Alto Park Siding
Public Delivery (MP 60.8)
D. M. Wertz Est. No. 1 (MP 61.7)
Penna. State Forestry School (MP 62.1)
The area we know today as the town of Mont Alto in Quincy Township, Southern Franklin County, was first settled in 1807 when the Iron Works were built by Col. Daniel Hughes and his son Samuel and named “Mont Alto.”
The Mont Alto Furnace continued under the Hughes’ direction until Holker Hughes, son of Samuel Hughes, sold it to a partnership headed by Col. George Berryhill Wiestling in 1864. After the purchase nearly everything had to be rebuilt, as the previous owners left the facilities fall into a state of disrepair. The company became known as the Mont Alto Iron Company.
The Mont Alto Iron Works at one time had employed 500 people for its operations. The furnace originally had eight ore mines and the number grew to 17, all close by. The workers who carried the ore, charcoal and small pieces of limestone to the stack were called “fillers.” A foundry for the operation was built in 1815. A rolling mill was added in 1832 but was discontinued in 1867.
A nail factory was built in 1835 but was destroyed by fire in 1850.
After a major fire at the Iron Works in 1889, Wiestling went on to organize a new company which only lasted a year and a half before the colonel’s passing on June 17, 1891, at the age of 57. His brother, Edward Wiestling, became superintendent of the Iron Works until 1893, when the Iron Works were closed and dismantled.
At the time it closed, the Iron Works consisted of a blast furnace; a steam forge; a foundry; machine, blacksmith, carpenter and wheelwright shops; plus two sawmills.
In 1902 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania purchased the park and furnace lands, which became Pennsylvania’s first state forest.
In 1903 Pennsylvania Gov. Samuel Pennypacker appointed Joseph T. Rothrock as the first commissioner of forestry. In May 1903, the State Forest Academy was established at Mont Alto with George Wirt as administrator. Today we know it as Penn State Mont Alto, where forestry and many other academic courses are available to the students.
In 1929 the Forest Academy merged with Pennsylvania State University, establishing Penn State Mont Alto. Students were adamantly opposed to the merger, and they protested by hanging two state officials in effigy.[2]
The campus closed from 1943 to 1946 because the students and faculty were fighting in WWII.[2]
In 1963, Penn State Mont Alto became a Commonwealth Campus.
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Public Delivery (MP 62.1)
Department of Health - State of Penna. (MP 62.1)
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Ruxton in 1904.
