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Pitcairn Railroad Shops and Yard

ca. 1930-1950

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Pitcairn Railroad Shops and Yard
  • Title
  • Pitcairn Railroad Shops and Yard
  • Date
  • ca. 1930-1950
  • Identifier
  • 20110217-hpicpitcairn-0151
  • Source Identifier
  • 150
  • Description
  • Over the years the railroad yard at Pitcairn steadily grew. The first receiving and classification yard was completed by 1892. By late 1905, the Westbound Hump yard was opened where rail cars were pushed up a hill (hump), uncoupled, and then rolled downhill into sorting tracks. Two years later, the Eastbound Hump near the site of the old Wall family farm was finished. A series of four tracks ran up to each of the humps and fanned into 35 others in the receiving yard.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Railroad yards--Pennsylvania--Pitcairn.
    Railroad repair shops--Pennsylvania--Pitcairn.
    Pennsylvania Railroad.
    Pitcairn (Pa.)--History.
  • Source
  • hpicpitcairn
  • Contributor
  • Pitcairn Historical Society
  • Collection
  • Pitcairn Historical Society Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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