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Allegheny Portage Railroad, Staple Bend Tunnel, Conemaugh Borough, East of Conrail Bridge, Geistown, Cambria County, PA

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Allegheny Portage Railroad, Staple Bend Tunnel, Conemaugh Borough, East of Conrail Bridge, Geistown, Cambria County, PA

description

Summary

Significance: The Staple Bend Tunnel is proclaimed to be the first railroad tunnel in the United States.
Survey number: HAER PA-240
Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 94001187

date_range

Date

1969 - 1980

person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

Madrid, transmitter

place

Location

Geistown, 40.29288, -78.87506

Google Map of 40.2928794, -78.8750644

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Source

Library of Congress

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Link

http://www.loc.gov/

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