Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site

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Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
110 Federal Park Road
Gallitzen, PA 16641

Phone: 814-886-6100

Traces of the first railroad crossing of the Allegheny Mountains can still be seen here. An inclined-plane railroad built between 1831 and 1834, it permitted transportation of passengers and freight over the mountains, providing a critical link in the Pennsylvania Mainline Canal system and with the west.

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