Allegheny Portage Railroad
The National Park Service says:
Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site: The Allegheny Portage Railroad was a great achievement in early travel. Charles Dickens, Jenny Linn, and Ulysses S. Grant traveled over the Allegheny Mountains. They braved a system that injured passengers on a weekly basis. A system of inclined planes and a nine hundred foot tunnel carved through solid rock by Welsh coalminers made this feat possible. For twenty years, it was the fastest way to transgress the rough and wild terrain of Pennsylvania....
Did You Know? Accidents occurred weekly on the Allegheny Portage Railroad. In the 1840’s the engine house at incline plane #6 blew up killing four people...
Anybody been to the Allegheny Portage Railroad?
