Allegheny Portage
Railroad
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| The Allegheny Portage Railroad was a great achievement in early American travel. Charles Dickens, Jenny Linn, and Ulysses S. Grant were among those who traveled over the Allegheny Mountains on this system of inclined planes and a nine hundred foot tunnel carved through solid rock that injured passengers on a weekly basis. A system by Welsh coalminers made this feat possible. For twenty years, it was the fastest way to cross the wild, rugged terrain of Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains. More | |
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Official NPS website of Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
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