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Altoona Works, 1973 |
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Vistas. Here is the first of three original photos that I took from atop the former Pennsylvania Railroad Test Plant building in Altoona, Pennsylvania, during June of 1973. Shown here in this East-facing view is all that is left of THE Altoona Works/12th Street Shops. On the far right is the Master Mechanics Building, now the home of the Railroaders Memorial Museum. The massive four-story shop buildings and the power plant are gone. The two buildings remaining are now owned by Altoona Pipe & Steel. On the other side of the tracks, the old Altoona Passenger Station has been demolished to make way for the 10th Avenue Expressway; railroad passengers have to huddle in a house trailer on the other side of the new 12th Street Footbridge. |
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6/21/1973 Upload Date: 9/11/2016 12:57:18 AM |
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Altoona, PA |
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Thomas C. Ayers |
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Altoona Works, 1973 |
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Vistas. Here is the second of three original photos that I took from atop the former Pennsylvania Railroad Test Plant building in Altoona, Pennsylvania, during June of 1973. Shown here in this South-facing view is a vacant field that once contained the Altoona Machine Shops, the Western Roundhouse, the Locomotive Test Plant, as well as the PRR System's Test Plant. Even the green-domed Altoona High School will soon be demolished! Brush Mountain dominates the distance. |
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6/21/1973 Upload Date: 1/29/2025 12:36:29 AM |
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Altoona, PA |
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Thomas C. Ayers |
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ALTO Tower, 1973 |
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Vistas. Here is third of three original photos that I took from atop the former Pennsylvania Railroad Test Plant building in Altoona, Pennsylvania, during June of 1973. Shown here in this West-facing view (R to L) are ALTO Tower, the six-track signal bridge, and the branch line to Hollidaysburg and the New Portage/Muleshoe Curve Secondary Line. Also visible in the distance is a Penn Central Railroad freight train passing under the 24th Street Bridge on its way up the Allegheny Mountains to Gallitzin and points West. In the early years of the 20th Century, the ready tracks to the left of the mainline were filled with fire-breathing, smoke-belching "helper" and "pusher" locomotives. Alas, no more! |
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6/21/1973 Upload Date: 9/11/2016 1:13:48 AM |
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Altoona, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
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Test Plant, Interior View, 1973 |
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Vistas. Here is an original photo that I took inside of the former Pennsylvania Railroad Test Plant building in Altoona, Pennsylvania, during June of 1973. The implication here is that some sort of very large testing device once occupied this space. |
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6/21/1973 Upload Date: 1/11/2025 11:53:18 AM |
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Altoona, PA |
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Thomas C. Ayers |
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Altoona Test Plant, 1973 |
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Vistas. Here is an original photo that I took of the former Pennsylvania Railroad Test Plant building in Altoona, Pennsylvania, during June of 1973 ~ not too long before it was demolished. One of the things that made the PRR the "Standard Railroad of the World" was its long-standing, in-house capacity to design, experiment, and test ~ much of which happened in this building and the locomotive dynamometer facility next to it. When the PRR stopped designing, experimenting, and testing . . . well, you know what happened then. |
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6/21/1973 Upload Date: 12/19/2024 12:10:49 AM |
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Altoona, PA |
| Author: |
Thomas C. Ayers |
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PRR Fabrication Shop Demolition, 1971 |
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Here is an original 35mm color slide by an unidentified photographer that was taken in Altoona, Pennsylvania, during September of 1971. Shown here is the on-going demolition of a structure that was once part of the Pennsylvania Railroad's 12th Street Car Shops. Visible at the right is what's left of the Fabrication Shop. 1st Floor: New Cars; 2nd Floor: Welding; 3rd Floor: Storehouse; 4th Floor: Electric Shop. Visible at the far left is the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. |
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9/22/1971 Upload Date: 7/7/2020 6:35:37 PM |
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Altoona, PA |
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Thomas C. Ayers |
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