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45-660: Operational headquarters were in Huntingdon and Saxton , with financial and business offices located in Philadelphia . The primary shop facilities were located in Saxton; auxiliary car shop facilities were at Huntington. Turntables were located at Huntingdon, Saxton and Mount Dallas, Pennsylvania . The Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company was chartered on May 6, 1852, and organized on January 10, 1853. The purpose of

90-473: A female householder with no husband present, and 45.4% were non-families. 38.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.16 and the average family size was 2.82. In the borough the population was spread out, with 17.7% under the age of 18, 24.4% from 18 to 24, 19.1% from 25 to 44, 22.4% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

135-531: A population of 6,827 at the 2020 census, it is the largest population center near Raystown Lake , a winding, 28-mile-long (45 km) flood-control reservoir managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers . The borough is located on the main line of the Norfolk Southern (formerly Pennsylvania) Railway, in an agricultural and outdoor recreational region with extensive forests and scattered deposits of ganister rock , coal, fire clay , and limestone. Historically,

180-482: A stationer and businessman, popularized the writing tablet and began marketing it nationwide. His factory in downtown Huntingdon was later relocated to nearby Alexandria . Huntingdon's Herncane Broom Factory was founded in 1863 by Benjamin F. Herncane. The 1897 Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley reported that the factory's output was twenty-five dozens per day and furnished "all

225-510: A town, so Dr. Smith is considered the founder. Huntingdon (the name by which he eventually called his town) sits at the site of corn fields that had been cultivated at a date now unknown, next to where Standing Stone Creek flows into the Juniata River. The 100th anniversary of its incorporation was marked by the erection of a "Standing Stone Monument" on Third Street, modeled on a tall, narrow shaft known to have existed before 1750, whose purpose

270-521: A wide circulation in published sources. More likely, the Anglican cleric named it after the town of the same name in England; doing so had become a pattern for naming Pennsylvania settlements, Bedford , Carlisle and York being nearby examples of the trend. In 1796, the little village was incorporated as a borough. Huntingdon long served as the junction of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad with

315-750: Is Number 38 , a 1927 Baldwin Locomotive Works 2-8-0 . After the H&;BTM closed, this locomotive was sold to the Rail City Historical Museum in Sandy Creek, New York . Railway Post Office car 5436, coach 27, caboose 17, and various pieces of tools and other hardware were also acquired and preserved by the museum. Locomotive No. 38 would later be sold to the Livonia, Avon and Lakeville Railroad , which restored it to service, and finally, Sloan Cornell of

360-558: Is a shortline and heritage railroad that operates on ex- Pennsylvania Railroad trackage in the Hollidaysburg area of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania . It runs freight trains over two separate lines, one from Brooks Mill and Sproul , and the other, owned by the Morrison's Cove Railroad , from Roaring Spring to Curryville and Martinsburg . The affiliated Hollidaysburg and Roaring Spring Railroad ( reporting mark HRS ), which

405-604: Is believed to be in New England. RPO 5436 was scrapped on the grounds of Rail City. Coach 27 was acquired by the Central New York Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society and is preserved at their Central Square Station Museum. Depots still exist at Riddlesburg (converted to a church), Everett (along with the separate freight house structure), Hopewell and Dudley (the latter being

450-448: Is unclear but may have served as a trail marker. It may be significant that natural sandstone formations (popularly called Pulpit Rocks), which "stand erect", are on a nearby ridge. A story surfaced during the early 19th century that Smith had renamed Standing Stone Settlement to honor an Englishwoman, Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon . Smith's descendants vehemently denied the story, and there exists no evidence to support it, despite

495-565: The Gettysburg Railroad . The locomotive was transferred to Cornell's Knox and Kane Railroad at Marienville, Pennsylvania in the 1980s. After it was removed from tourist service in the 1990s, No. 38 was stored at the Marienville enginehouse, where it received a new tender and H&BT lettering. After the K&;K ceased tourist operations, it was moved to Kane, Pennsylvania and stored inside

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540-648: The Morrison's Cove Secondary from Roaring Spring to Curryville , along with a short branch into Martinsburg , was acquired by the Morrison's Cove Railroad, organized by local shippers, in mid-1982. The shippers initially contracted with the Allegheny Southern Railway ( reporting mark ASRW ), which operated the line from September 1982 to the end of 1984, but on January 1, 1985, the Everett Railroad took over operations. This line had been constructed by

585-582: The Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), built a line from Mount Dallas to Hopewell in July 1863, connecting with the H&BTM. It was merged into the H&BTM on August 17, 1864. Total track mileage at the company's height was just over 72 miles. A number of branches were built to serve the Broad Top coal fields, beginning as soon as the railroad reached the area in 1853–1855. The H&BTM connected with

630-527: The Pennsylvania Railroad , and as an important port on the Main Line of Public Works of the Pennsylvania Canal . In past years, Huntingdon boasted of manufacturers of flour, heavy machinery, radiators, furniture, stationery, woolen goods, shirts, shoes, electronic components, finished lumber, fiberglass yarn, matting and underground storage tanks. In the 19th century, J. C. Blair, a native of Shade Gap and

675-743: The Susquehannock . Through a combination of ongoing war with other indigenous nations, such as the Haudenosaunee , disease brought by Europeans, and violence from settlers, the Susquehannock are currently thought to have been entirely wiped out or subsumed by other tribes. In 1768, Rev. William Smith began selling lots on the Standing Stone Tract along the Juniata, land he had recently acquired. The tracts' two prior owners had not attempted to lay out

720-513: The 5th Coolest Small Town in the United States. Results were announced on The Early Show on April 15, 2009, by Budget Travel' s editor in chief Nina Willdorf and show host Harry Smith . In 2015, Huntingdon was chosen by Niche.com as the 7th Best City to Retire in Pennsylvania. The source of the city water for Huntingdon borough and Smithfield Township is Standing Stone Creek , with

765-574: The Everett Railroad operates both under contract and via trackage rights , connects the two segments to each other and to the Norfolk Southern Railway (ex- Conrail ) in Hollidaysburg . The Everett Railroad name refers to its former location near Everett , abandoned in 1982. The Everett Railroad was incorporated in April 1954 to take over a portion of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company (H&BT) near Everett , which

810-618: The Everett Railroad's ties to the outside world and forcing its abandonment. The company was revived in May 1984, when it acquired a part of Conrail's Bedford Secondary between Brooks Mill and Sproul . Completed in 1910 by the Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad , a predecessor of the Pennsylvania Railroad, this line had connected to the Mt. Dallas Secondary near Bedford until 1982. A second line,

855-708: The Juniata River) are the regional headquarters of the Pennsylvania Game Commission (Southcentral Division) and the Bureau of Forestry (Rothrock State Forest). State Game Lands 322 extends north from Huntingdon Borough in the direction of Petersburg. Public parks are the George N. Weaver Memorial Park (ball field and playground) at the end of 16th Street, Portstown Park along the Juniata River, and Blair Field bordering Standing Stone Creek. Historic Blair Park, directly across

900-600: The PRR at Huntingdon, and with the Bedford and Bridgeport Railroad at Mount Dallas. It operated the B&;B via lease in 1871, however the PRR, which had provided the majority of financial backing for the B&B's construction, took over operation of the B&B the following year. The H&BTM would continue to operate passenger service via trackage rights to Bedford over the B&B until 1953, but from 1872 onwards, its southern freight terminus

945-544: The Pennsylvania Railroad itself in 1871. Conrail continued to operate the remainder of the Morrison's Cove Secondary, from Roaring Spring through Brooks Mill to Hollidaysburg , until Alan W. Maples, owner of the Everett Railroad, organized the Hollidaysburg and Roaring Spring Railroad (H&RS) and bought the line in March 1995. Simultaneously, the Everett Railroad acquired trackage rights to Hollidaysburg, and began operating

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990-438: The borough was 94.61% White , 1.93% Black or African American , 0.07% Native American , 1.51% Asian , 0.31% from other races , and 1.56% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.49% of the population. There were 2,674 households, out of which 26.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 38.2% were married couples living together, 4.1% had a male householder with no wife present, 12.4% had

1035-433: The borough: Huntingdon has a humid continental climate ( Köppen Dfa ), with warm summers and moderately cold winters. As of the census of 2010, there were 7,093 people, 2,674 households, and 1,461 families residing in the borough. The population density was 2,026.6 inhabitants per square mile (782.5/km ). There were 2,911 housing units at an average density of 831.7 per square mile (321.1/km ). The racial makeup of

1080-455: The broom factory, went on to found the Herncane Bros. general store, which stood at the corner of 6th and Washington. The vicinity (but not much of the town proper) has been the subject of repeated flooding, in 1889, in 1936, and again in 1972. More recently in 2004, Hurricane Ivan resulted in major flooding close to Huntingdon, the worst since the remnants of Hurricane Agnes stalled over

1125-539: The brooms used by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company." The company employed 14 workers and 3 traveling salesman. The building stood on Fourteenth Street from number 1416 to 1422. On 27 February 1903, the Everett Press reported that the "Herncane Broom Factory of Huntingdon was destroyed by fire last Saturday night. Loss about $ 1500." Brothers Walter S. and George B. Herncane, who worked with their father at

1170-655: The coal-hauling Juniata and Southern Railway , which connected at Marklesburg . Glendale, the terminus of the Sandy Run Branch, originally was an interchange with the narrow gauge Reichley Brothers logging railroad, which operated near Wells Tannery in Fulton County . When the branch was extended from Glendale up Broad Top Mountain in the early 1920s to access the Garlick Mine, the Reichleys abandoned their right of way on

1215-460: The depot from Broad Top City, Pennsylvania . The Dudley water tank, an enclosed wooden structure, remains as well. Huntingdon, Pennsylvania Huntingdon is a borough in and county seat of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania , United States. It is located along the Juniata River , approximately 32 miles (51 km) east of Altoona and 92 miles (148 km) west of Harrisburg . With

1260-683: The late 1930s. Converted to a work car, it was scrapped in the 1980s. Caboose 15 is at the Williams Grove Historical Steam Association's park in Williams Grove, Pennsylvania . Caboose 16 is now at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania previously owned by Larry Williams of Saxton, Pa who owns H&BT engine 31's Baldwin Number plate. Caboose 17 survived after Rail City's closure; its current whereabouts are unknown, although it

1305-580: The line was to provide a rail link from Huntingdon to Bedford , and to provide a competitive alternate route to local coal producers to break the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 's monopoly on coal that was being shipped from the Cumberland, Maryland , area. The existence of high quality semi-bituminous coal in the Broad Top Mountain region was known since colonial times. Before the railroad, wagon or pole barge

1350-597: The northeast side of the Juniata River , an east-flowing major tributary of the Susquehanna River . According to the United States Census Bureau , the borough has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.6 km ), of which 3.6 square miles (9.4 km ) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km ), or 2.50%, are water. The following municipalities are also located in Huntingdon County, bordering on

1395-559: The railroad's expanded enginehouse. However, that structure was burnt in an arson-related fire on March 16, 2008, damaging 38 in the process. The locomotive was sold at auction to Alan Maples, the owner of the Everett Railroad on October 10, 2008, and is starting to be restored as of 2022. The last surviving piece of revenue freight equipment was G-22 gondola 3807, which had been sold to the Bellefonte Central Railroad in

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1440-478: The region in July 1972. The Huntingdon Borough Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. From June 8 to 11, 2017, Huntingdon celebrated its 250th anniversary. Huntingdon is located north of the center of Huntingdon County at 40°29′43″N 78°0′47″W  /  40.49528°N 78.01306°W  / 40.49528; -78.01306 (40.495187, -78.013147), on

1485-452: The region surrounding Huntingdon was dotted with iron furnaces and forges, consuming limestone, iron ore and wood (for charcoal production) throughout the 19th century. Dairy farms dominate the local agriculture. The town is a regular stop for the daily Amtrak service which connects Pittsburgh with Philadelphia and New York City . Huntingdon is home to Juniata College . The original inhabitants of Huntingdon and neighboring counties were

1530-594: The same stream, is owned and managed by a nonprofit group; it contains a gazebo and a level hiking and biking trail. A vintage chapel within the park is used by the congregation of Epiphany of Our Lord Orthodox Church. Huntingdon is the nearest town to the Allegrippis Trail system, ranked 15th on the list of "The BEST Mountain Bike Trails in the World." In 2009, Huntingdon was named by Budget Travel magazine's readers as

1575-649: The southernmost four miles of H&BTM trackage, between Tatesville and Mount Dallas on April 1, 1954. They operated until 1982, when they closed due to Conrail's abandonment of the remainder of the Bedford Division, by then known as the Conrail's Bedford and Mount Dallas Branches. The trackage was removed in 1985. The railroad's trackage in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania was sold to the Pennsylvania Railroad. The PRR and its successors Penn Central (PC) and Conrail (CR) operated

1620-446: The town disapproved of that, and 30 was scrapped to the dismay of some of the people in town. The builders' plates were scrapped with the engine; however, the front number plate was removed beforehand, so, the number plate might still be out there. Share the exact same blueprints for 37's & 38's ash pan. 38's unofficial planned completion date is April 2027, the 100th birthday of the engine H&BTM's only surviving locomotive

1665-525: The track as a means of accessing an industrial park in the Smithfield portion of Huntingdon. Though the northern portion of the trackage remains, it has not been used since the late 1990s. Roster: *Note all engine after the second 29 & 28 (listed) had the same 66-inch boilers from Baldwin to make repairs easier same engine blueprints as Georgia Railroad class 35 listed in SMU Baldwin Archives 30

1710-459: The water treatment facility being located in the east end of the borough. Huntingdon's only radio stations are WHUN WOWY 103.5 FM, Bigfoot Country 106.3 FM, but radio broadcasts from other markets can also be heard: Huntingdon receives all television programming from the Johnstown - Altoona - State College media market. Everett Railroad The Everett Railroad ( reporting mark EV )

1755-417: The western slope of the mountain and moved their interchange point to the community of Reichley, the location of the brothers' sawmill. Though similar in name, there was no formal interchange connection or business relationship between the H&BTM and the narrow gauge East Broad Top Railroad . Through the Juniata and Southern Railroad, a physical connection existed at Jacobs, but its doubtful that any cargo

1800-484: Was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.3 males. The median income for a household in the borough was $ 35,057, and the median income for a family was $ 54,621. The per capita income for the borough was $ 19,070. About 6.3% of families and 15.3% of the population were below the poverty line , including 8.9% of those under age 18 and 14.2% of those age 65 or over. In adjoining Smithfield Township (across

1845-483: Was a beautiful 4-4-0 looking similar to Wilmington and Western 98, loved by most of the town of Saxton Pa When the railroad filed for bankruptcy in 1949, most of the people in town loved that engine, and so did people on the railroad. So, when the H&BTMRR was retiring their engine, they planned to give it to the town of Saxton as a static display in front of the High school, because it was cheaper than scrapping it, but sadly

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1890-519: Was abandoned in May of that year. The line, which extended north from the end of the Pennsylvania Railroad 's Mt. Dallas Branch at Mount Dallas to a point near Tatesville , parallel to PA Route 26 , had been constructed from 1859 to 1863 by the Bedford Railroad , which was merged into the H&BT in 1864. Conrail discontinued service on the then-Mt. Dallas Secondary in October 1982, severing

1935-525: Was at Mount Dallas. The B&B was under complete control of the PRR from 1872 onwards but was separated from the contiguous PRR system until 1910, when they completed their Bedford Division between Cessna and Brookes Mills. The H&BTM served as a PRR bridge line for traffic between its two end points until that time. After 1910, the majority of bridge traffic was shifted to the PRR's Bedford Division. The H&BTM also supported some minor industrial lines, mostly logging railroads and iron ore, as well as

1980-822: Was exchanged between the two railroads. The railroad was at its height in the last decades of the 19th century and the pre-World War I period of the 20th century. The completion of the Bedford Division allowed the PRR to divert most of the lucrative through traffic from the Cumberland area away from the H&BTM. The decline of the Broad Top Mountain coal fields, the maturity of construction bonds, and many ill-advised right of way improvements and equipment purchases took their financial toll. The Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad declared bankruptcy on October 11, 1953, operated its last passenger train in November 1953 and ceased operations on March 31, 1954. The Everett Railroad took over

2025-475: Was the only practical method of bringing the coal from the remote region to market. The 31 mile portion of the main line from Huntingdon to Hopewell , via Saxton and Riddlesburg , was completed in 1855. On February 3, 1859, the Bedford Railroad Company was chartered to provide a railroad connection for Bedford, and was incorporated February 19, 1859. This company, with financial assistance from

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