. Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil . everyimportant piece of railway construction in Pennsyl-vania that had been undertaken during the previoustwenty-eight years. Their first railway contract was for the buildingof the old Portage Eailroad, which was opened fortraffic in 1849. Later they constructed the Philadel-phia and Erie Eailroad, part of the main line of thePennsylvania Eailroad, including the long tunnel atGallitzen, the branches to Ebensburg and Tyrone, also,the Clearfield and Indiana branches. After other con-tractors had sunk l
. Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the headwaters of the Madeira River in Brazil . everyimportant piece of railway construction in Pennsyl-vania that had been undertaken during the previoustwenty-eight years. Their first railway contract was for the buildingof the old Portage Eailroad, which was opened fortraffic in 1849. Later they constructed the Philadel-phia and Erie Eailroad, part of the main line of thePennsylvania Eailroad, including the long tunnel atGallitzen, the branches to Ebensburg and Tyrone, also,the Clearfield and Indiana branches. After other con-tractors had sunk large sums of money in it and failed,P. & T. Collins took the contract to complete the cele-brated Sam Patch Tunnel near Cumberland, Mary-land, and were successful. Afterwards, they executedlarge contracts for the Philadelphia and Eeading Eail-road, the Lehigh Valley and Jersey Central, built apart of the Western Pennsylvania Eailroad, had alarge contract on the Southern Pennsylvania, con-structed most of the Beach Creek, a part of the Lewis-burg and Tyrone and many private •Hj^^B. ^^^ M^^
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