Legacy Of The Gallitzin Tunnels | Retracing History Episode 68

Located just beneath the crest of the Allegheny Mountain are a series of railroad tunnels. While not the first nor the last of their kind, these particular three would revolutionize how transportation was achieved across Pennsylvania and beyond.
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[@dannysgirl1549]

The Tunnel Inn is well worth staying at to watch the trains. We’ve been there twice and are going back in June. There is a switch on the porch that turns on the lights by the tracks so you can watch the trains at night. Can hardly wait to go back.

[@zigman8550]

My grandpa lived in Cresson, PA. and worked for the PRR for 50 years, 1886-1936. He worked at UN tower just west of these tunnels. My mom told me a freight train derailed and took the tower out and they never rebuilt it. FYI - The PRR never called them a caboose. They were "cabin cars"

[@RRose-ie8oh]

The wooden rollers shown at 18:28 were from the incline planes of the Allegheny Portage Railroad. The "Main Line of Public Works" built by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania used a series of canals in level areas, locks to change elevations and stationary steam engines to pull the canal boats over the mountains. These wooden rollers were for the hull of the canal boat as it was being dragged over dry land to the next canal segment. It was not very efficient and could be quite dangerous if a rope broke while the boat was being pulled up an inclined plane! But it was faster over all than just a stage coach over the rutted dirt or macadam roads of the era.

[@HistoricBF]

Cant wait to visit the Tunnel Inn again! Location is outstanding, facilities are terrific, and Bob is an amazing host!

[@sparky107107]

very cool.. thanks for the video, and history

[@patrickcalabro8718]

My friend and I were both fourteen years old when we hopped on our first freight train ride through the “Deadman’s Tunnel” in Jersey City on Easter 🐣 Sunday in 1967! Also known as the Long Dock or Bergen Tunnel, its length spans a distance of 7/10 of a mile. Fifty-seven people were killed and thirty-two others injured 🤕 ⛑ during its construction in the mid-1850s ⚰️ ✝️ 🪦! Upon exiting out the western portal, we got off of the slow-moving freight and turned for home, 🏡 trekking through the “Erie Cut.” Opened for passenger service in 1911, this former four-track corridor was built 🏗 to bypass the smoke 💨 and congestion of the two-track Bergen Tunnel. This series of tunnel underpasses is located sixty feet below ⬇️ the street level. Also known as the “Bergen Arches,” the Cut was a team effort between the Erie RR and the Department of Transportation. The tunnels identified as ‘Erie-built’ had the portals crafted in the Ornamental ⚒ Art 🖼 Deco of the time ⏳period. Train operations in the Cut ended in 1955 after the closing of the Erie Railroad 🛤 Passenger Terminal on the Jersey City Waterfront. The “Dead 💀 Man’s Tunnel” is still in operation today as a freight line for the Norfolk and Southern Railroad.🚦 thank you 🎌 🚩 🧑‍🎤 🏁 👩‍💼👩‍🎓

[@truckinpoppop6777]

Gonna be making my first trip to that area in June!

[@tomy.1846]

Great video!!!

[@Dragon204]

if you have a 4fwd drive vehicle there is access to to other side of the tunnels and benington cemetery

[@talesfromanoldmanpatoneal6372]

Outstanding video! Man, the sound coming out of that tunnel when the train is coming through! Wow

[@ThePTBRULES]

Not Railroads* - The Pennsylvania Railroad. It was a challenge to build across that part of the state East to West. That why the other Rail lines that stretched into Central to Western Pennsylvania went North-South, like the Baltimore and Ohio and the Western Maryland.

[@ODDySEEy]

So here's a question... with the passing of the 1895 Garb Act, which has remained an UNCHANGED law, originally Anti-Catholic law, since its inception, why are people permitted to wear Habib... yet a Jew cannot wear a Kippah, a Mennonite or Brethren cannot wear "Plain Cloth".

[@RedoubtProductions1754]

I did a little digging in the days after completing editing as I hadn't really thought hard on the Garb Act during this video's production. It turns out that the Shapiro Governorship passed a State Senate bill into law at the start of 2024 to repeal the law. The Garb Act itself has largely been unenforceable in the 21st century due to conflicting federal laws.

[@ODDySEEy]

@@RedoubtProductions1754 yeah, First Amendment and all that.

[@williammcgeehan3424]

13:34 That's not a caboose. The PRR never owned any cabooses. They only had cabin cars. ☺

[@RedoubtProductions1754]

Ah yes, the ole Pennsy...being as particular with phrasing as Vince McMahon is in talking about wrestling- I mean sports entertainment. 😅

[@Elliottblancher]

Wrong, the PRR had Cabooses like every other Railroad at the time

[@williammcgeehan3424]

@@Elliottblancher PRR men only referred to them as cabin cars.

[@ostrich67]

@@RedoubtProductions1754 Also, the N5c cabin cars were built in 1942 and were in service through the 1980s.

[@patrickcalabro8718]

The Men 🦺 who constructed the Bergen 🏗 Tunnel and laid down the tracks lived on-site 🚧 with their families in a place called Shanty Town, which was located on a hill where the present-day Dickinson High School 🏫 Building stands today. The men were paid 🏦 from the Erie Railroad 🛤 Payroll 💰 Car. 🚥 🚞 🚦 💵 🍺 thank you very much 🎌 🚩 🧑‍🎤 🏁 👩‍💼👩‍🎓

[@RussEstus-tg5yn]

Very informative and well done video,thank you

[@davidboone7630]

I quite enjoyed the video. I see that I will have to visit Gallitzin again one of these days. I was just a bit surprised that you didn't mention, while describing the east side photo (16:10), the overhead on the New Portage line under which the track from its junction with the Allegheny track connected to the line to Muleshoe Curve (if I recall correctly).

[@mzimm460]

I used to go to Gallitzin to go to snow shoe but we stayed at a camp in gallitizin

[@SleeTheSloth]

Great video!!!

[@RHSNOW]

💖😭💖OMGosh Redoubt Trains are my weakness

[@leehuff2330]

That train at the end eventually came past my place. Those are hauling garbage from the East Coast to a landfill in Ohio. They are routed onto the former Cleveland and Pittsburgh line at Conway Yard, then to a remnant of the old Panhandle line at Mingo Junction, Ohio before reaching the Apex landfill near Scio, Ohio.

[@HistoricBF]

Gotta love 63V

[@leehuff2330]

@@HistoricBF They managed to put it on the ground down between Toronto and Steubenville a couple years ago. A couple cars went in the river.