. Pennsylvania Railroad System ... a description of its main lines and branches, with notes of the historical events which have taken place in the territory contiguous .. . coke ovens heraldsthe subdued light and the rumble of Gallitzin Tunnel, which marks the passage of the train through thesummit of the mountains. The altitude of the tracks at the highest pointin the tunnel is 2,192 feet above sea level, and the mountain above is 150feet higher. There are three tunnels piercing the crest at this point, rangingfrom 3,500 feet to 1,610 feet in length. The tunnel pierces the great divide betwee
. Pennsylvania Railroad System ... a description of its main lines and branches, with notes of the historical events which have taken place in the territory contiguous .. . coke ovens heraldsthe subdued light and the rumble of Gallitzin Tunnel, which marks the passage of the train through thesummit of the mountains. The altitude of the tracks at the highest pointin the tunnel is 2,192 feet above sea level, and the mountain above is 150feet higher. There are three tunnels piercing the crest at this point, rangingfrom 3,500 feet to 1,610 feet in length. The tunnel pierces the great divide between the Atlantic Slope and thegreat Mississippi Valley. Going west the little stream in Allegrippus gorgeempties into the Juniata and by devious ways makes its way to the NorthAtlantic Ocean. The little brook that soon makes its appearance amongstthe hills on the far side of the tunnel is one of the branches of the Cone-maugh River, and its waters find a final outlet, through the Ohio andMississippi rivers, in the Gulf of Mexico. Gallitzin, at the western mouth of the tunnel, is a town principallyinhabited by coal miners and coke burners, whose wooden houses cover 23.
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