Bedford Branch
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The Bedford Branch, previously the Bedford Division and then the Juniata Division, was a rail line owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Middle Division in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
The line ran from the Morrisons Cove Branch at Brookes Mills south via Bedford to the Maryland state line. The PRR had trackage rights south to Cumberland over the Western Maryland Railway's State Line Branch.Pennsylvania Railroad, [http://kc.pennsyrr.com/maps/accountingmaps.ws4d 1941 Division Accounting Maps] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120724090841/http://kc.pennsyrr.com/maps/accountingmaps.ws4d |date=2012-07-24 }} Only the line from Brookes Mills south to Sproul is still in use, as a line of the Everett Railroad.
History
The Bedford and Bridgeport Railroad opened from the state line north via Bedford to Mount Dallas (at the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company) in 1871;{{cite web |url= http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1871%20Jan%2005.pdf |title= PRR Chronology, 1871 |access-date= 2006-11-30 |archive-date= 2013-10-14 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131014023302/http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1871%20Jan%2005.pdf |url-status= dead }} {{small|(72.9 KiB)}}, January 2005 Edition the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad built a connecting branch in Maryland.{{cite web|url= http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1872%20Feb%2005.pdf |title=PRR Chronology, 1872 }} {{small|(86.1 KiB)}}, February 2005 Edition The Dunnings Creek Branch, later part of the main line, opened from Dunnings Creek Junction (near Bedford) north, through Cessna, to ore mines at Holderbaum in 1873.{{cite web|url= http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1873%20Feb%2005.pdf |title=PRR Chronology, 1873 }}, February 2005 Edition The Pennsylvania Railroad in Maryland was chartered in 1876 to build an independent connection from the state line to Cumberland. The road opened in 1879 and in 1888 was merged into the Georges Creek and Cumberland RailroadHicks, W. Raymond. "Pennsylvania Railroad in Maryland." The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin 85 (1952): 9-10. and later became part of the Western Maryland Railway.{{cite web|url= http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1876%20April%2006.pdf |title=PRR Chronology, 1876 }} {{small|(116 KiB)}}, April 2006 Edition
In 1891, the Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad opened an extension from Cessna north to near Imler,[http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/rail/prr/Corphist/prr3.html PRR Corporate History: Pennsylvania Railroad] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20071229015742/http://broadway.pennsyrr.com/Rail/Prr/Corphist/prr3.html |date=2007-12-29 }} and completed the line to Brookes Mills in 1910. This connected it to the rest of the PRR system via the Morrisons Cove Branch; it had formerly only been connected via the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company.{{cite web|url= http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1910%20Mar%2005.pdf |title=PRR Chronology, 1910 }} {{small|(53.7 KiB)}}, March 2005 Edition
Infrastructure
Two editions of the Pennsylvania Railroad's CT 1000, Lists of Stations and Sidings and Instructions for Making Reports to the Superintendent Car Service, (1923,{{Cite book |last=Pennsylvania Railroad |title=Lists of Stations and Sidings and Instructions for Making Reports to the Superintendent Car Service |publisher=Pennsylvania Railroad |year=1923 |location=Philadelphia, Pa}} 1945{{Cite web |last=Pennsylvania Railroad |date=1945 |title=C. T. 1000 Lists of Stations and Sidings and Instructions for Making Reports to the Superintendent Car Service |url=http://www.multimodalways.org/docs/railroads/companies/PRR/PRR%20CT%201000%20Stations%20&%20Sidings%205-1-1945.pdf |access-date=November 26, 2022 |website=www.multimodalways.org/index.html}}) serve as the basic guide for the line.
= Brookes Mills, Pa to Dunning's Creek Junction, Pa =
| class="wikitable"
|+ ! !Station !CT-1000 Edition !Note !Lineside Facilities !Dist. from Brookes Mills |
| rowspan="2" |5115
| rowspan="2" |Brookes Mills, Pa |1923/1945 | rowspan="2" |Jct. Morison's Cove Branch |Telephone Office |0.0 |
| 1923
|Passing Siding |0.2 |
| |BROOK
| |Block-Limit Station{{Cite book |last=Pennsylvania Railroad |title=Middle Division Time-Table No. 4, 14 November 1943 |publisher=Pennsylvania Railroad |year=1943}} | | rowspan="2" |0.0 |
| rowspan="4" |4070
| rowspan="4" |Brookes Mills, Pa |1923 |Station |No siding |
| 1923/1945
|Passing Siding |No carload delivery |0.2 |
| 1923
|Interchange Siding |Siding - No carload delivery |0.4 |
| 1945
|Standard Oil Co. No. 3 |Siding for individual use |1.1 |
| 4071
|East Freedom, Pa |1945 |Station |Telephone Office |1.5 |
| |
|1923 |E. R. Baldridge & Co. No. 1 |Siding for individual use | rowspan="2" |5.4 |
| rowspan="4" |4072
| rowspan="4" |Claysburg, Pa |1923/1945 |General Refractories Co. No. 6 |Siding for individual use |
| 1923/1945
|Station |Telephone Office Water towerPhotographic evidence |6.1 |
| 1945
|L. H. Diehl |Siding for individual use |6.2 |
| 1923/1945
|Passing Siding |No carload delivery |6.3 |
| rowspan="2" |4074
| rowspan="2" |Sproul, Pa |1923/1945 |General Refractories Co. No. 3 ('23), No. 7 ('45) |Siding for individual use |7.4 |
| 1923
|Station |Telephone Office |7.6 |
| rowspan="3" |4075
| rowspan="3" |Queen, Pa |Prior to 1923 | | |
| 1923
|Station |Telephone Office | rowspan="2" |9.2 |
| 1945
| |Telephone Office |
| 4076
|Summit, Pa |1923 |Passing Siding |No carload delovery |10.2 |
| rowspan="2" |4078
| rowspan="2" |Imler, Pa |1923/1945 |Passing Siding |No carload delivery |13.0 |
| 1923
|Station |Telephone Office |13.3 |
| rowspan="3" |4080
| rowspan="3" |Osterberg, Pa |1923 |Passing Siding |No carload delivery |15.6 |
| 1923
|Station |Telephone Office | rowspan="2" |15.7 |
| 1945
| |Telephone Office |
| rowspan="3" |4081
| rowspan="3" |Reynoldsdale, Pa |1923 |Passing Siding |No carload delivery |18.0 |
| 1923
|Station |Telephone Office | rowspan="2" |18.1 |
| 1945
| |Telephone Office |
| 4082
|Fishertown, Pa |1923/1945 |Station |Telephone Office |20.3 |
| 4084
| rowspan="4" |Cessna, Pa |1923/1945 |Passing Siding |No carload delivery |22.0 |
| rowspan="3" |4085
|1923 |Station |Telephone Office | rowspan="3" |22.6 |
| 1945
| |Telephone Office |
| 1923
|Blackburn Milling Co. |Siding for individual use |
| |Smith's Crossing, Pa
|1923 |Station |No siding |24.1 |
| |Hughes, Pa
|1923 |Station |No siding |25.9 |
| rowspan="2" |4090
| rowspan="3" |Younts, Pa |1923 |Station | | rowspan="2" |27.3 |
| 1945
| | |
| 4091
|1923 |Passing siding |No carload delivery |27.5 |
| |Chalybeate, Pa
|1923 |Station |No siding |29.9 |
| |CREEK
| | |30.4 |
| 4092
|Dunning's Creek Jct |1945 | |No siding |30.5 |
= Mt. Dallas Branch, Pa =
| class="wikitable"
|+ ! !Station !CT-1000 Edition !Note !Lineside Facilities !Distance From Mt. Dallas !Distance From Brookes Mills |
| |CREEK
| | |7.0 |30.4 |
| 4092
|Dunning's Creek Jct |1923/1945 |Jct Mt. Dallas Branch |No siding |6.9 |30.5 |
| rowspan="2" |4150
| rowspan="2" |Cliffs, Pa | rowspan="2" |1923 |Station |No siding |6.4 |31.0 |
| Tate Ganister Rock Co.
|For individual use |6.2 |31.2 |
| rowspan="2" |4148
| rowspan="2" |Hartley, Pa | rowspan="2" |1923 |Station |No siding |4.2 |33.2 |
| Passing
|No carload delivery |4.3 |33.1 |
| rowspan="2" |4147
| rowspan="2" |Lutzville, Pa |1923 |Station | | rowspan="2" |3.3 | rowspan="2" |34.1 |
| 1945
| | |
| rowspan="3" |4146
| rowspan="3" |Ashcom, Pa |1923 |J. E. Thropp No. 4 |For individual use | rowspan="3" |1.7 | rowspan="3" |35.7 |
| 1945
|New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co. No. 2 |For individual use |
| 1923
|Station | |
| rowspan="2" |4145
| rowspan="2" |Earlston, Pa | rowspan="2" |1923 |Barclay Gannister Rock Co. |For individual use |0.3 | rowspan="2" |37.1 |
| J. E. Thropp No. 1
|For individual use/Switch connection with H&BTMRR |0.3 |
| rowspan="2" |MD
| rowspan="2" |Mt. Dallas, Pa | rowspan="2" |1923/1945 |Jct H&BTMRR |Telephone Office | | rowspan="2" |37.4 |
| Passing Siding
|No carload delivery | |
| |DALLAS
| | | |37.4 |