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South Pennsylvania Railroad Photo Sites
Just a few photos of the South Pennsylvania Railroad grade sites in Somerset and Westmoreland County
Above: Though this is not part of the South Pennsylvania Railroad alignmnet but this is a Pennsylvania Canal culvert just west of Duncannon. I originally was interested in the Pennsylvania Canal from my early days after graduating High School. Now I feel like time has caught up to me and I will only be able to see just short pieces of it. I always wanted to do to the canal remains as I did with the South Pennsylvania Railroad.
SPRR grade faintly seen in
center of this photo.
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Standing on SPRR grade
above the Pennsylvania Turnpike
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Drawing of the east portal
of the Negro Mtn. Tunnel circa 1940's
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SPRR quarry atop the
Allegh. Mtn.
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SPRR culvert never covered on west slope of the Laurel Hill Mtn. |
SPRR culvert over the B&O Railroad active grade @ Geiger  |
Donegal Cut. This cut was originally to be a SPRR Tunnel.  |
SPRR/PW&S grade north west of Husband, Somerset Co.  |
SPRR/PW&S grade at MP 105.5 taken by the author.  |
SPRR/PW&S grade in 1938 by Penna Turnpike photo survey.  |
SPRR Blue print of Geiger overpass. To be built above B&O tracks  |
SPRR Today of Geiger overpass above B&O Railroad tracks.  |
SPRR blue print of the alignment entering the State Correctional institute north of the Somerset Plaza  |
Western Maryland's Pinkerton Bend Tunnel. Yes, this was planned to be a South Penn Railroad Tunnel  |
Geiger Station grade top side looking north east of Somerset.  |
This grade on the other side of this bridge was where the South Penn work ended at Donegal.  |