Pittsburgh – Harrisburg railway line
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| Route length: | 399 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Pittsburgh – Harrisburg railway is a 399 km long railway line of the Norfolk Southern Railway in the American state of Pennsylvania .
Together with the Philadelphia – Harrisburg railway line , it forms the Keystone Corridor . The route first follows the river valleys of the Allegheny and Conemaugh , then it pierces the Allegheny Mountains with the Gallitzin Tunnel and the Horseshoe Curve and follows the valleys of the Juniata and Susquehanna Rivers from Altoona .
The line, which was largely expanded to four tracks by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), is now consistently at least two-track. A third track is from Cove Jct east of Altoona to Conpit Jct between Johnstown and Latrobe. There is a short four-track section near Gallitzin .
history
The cities of Pittsburgh and Harrisburg were already connected with each other in 1845 by a combined canal and railway line built with public funds. In 1846 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania passed the "Act Incorporating the Pennsylvania Railroad Company", thereby establishing the private Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). After collecting money, she hired engineer John Edgar Thomson to build the line.
Construction began on both sides and was completed in 1854 on the most difficult section of the route, the Gallitzin Tunnel and the Horseshoe Curve. In 1855, JE Thomson bought the newly constructed main line of the PRR for $ 7.5 million , of which he remained president until 1874.
Train traffic
The Pennsylvanian runs once a day in each direction from New York to Pittsburg. In addition, the route is the main freight axis of the Norfolk Southern Railway.
Individual evidence
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↑ 234.19 miles from Pittsburgh to CP Cannon
14.26 miles from CP Cannon to Harrisburg - ^ Norfolk Southern, Pittsburgh Division, Track Charts. (PDF) Norfolk Southern Railway, 2012, accessed February 10, 2019 .
- ^ Multiple-track main lines (map of the month) . In: Trains Magazine . January 2006, January 2006, ISSN 0041-0934 .
- ↑ Lorett Treese: Railroads of Pennsylvania . 2nd Edition. Stackpole Books, 2012, ISBN 978-0-8117-2622-1 .
- ^ Amtrak: Pennsylvanian