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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: April 27, 2018
Caption: Allegheny Portage Railroad Marker
Additional Description: Top Illustrations
1 The re-built Aqueduct across the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh, a cable structure built by John Roebling about 1845. It replaced a wooden Aqueduct which had been declared unsafe.

2 The Juniata Division Canal at Huntingdon, about 1850. Note the track of the Pennsylvania Railroad by this time running parallel to the canal.

3 Looking downhill from the engine house, cars and sectional canal boats were pulled up the Belmont Plane after crossing the Columbia Bridge over the Schuylkill River.

4 The Main Line canal system stretched from downtown Philadelphia, shown here, to Pittsburgh.
Submitted: December 28, 2020, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p559827
File Size: 2.517 Megabytes

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