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Bellefonte Central Railroad

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The Bellefonte Central Railroad was a shortline connecting Bellefonte and State College, Pennsylvania. [1]

63 relations: American football, Amusement park, Bald Eagle Mountain, Beech Creek Railroad, Bellefonte Furnace, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, Beneficiation, Carnegie Steel Company, Central Railroad of Pennsylvania (1891–1918), Centre County, Pennsylvania, Civil engineer, Coal, Coke (fuel), Diesel locomotive, EMD SW1200, EMD SW9, G.I. Bill, Graysdale, Pennsylvania, Great Depression, Horseshoe curve, Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, Interstate Commerce Commission, Iron ore, James A. Beaver, Lime (material), Mesabi Range, Mill Hall, Pennsylvania, National Gypsum, New York Central Railroad, Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad, Nittany Furnace, Overhead line, Panic of 1893, Penn Central Transportation Company, Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvania State University, Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Queen Anne style architecture, Rail freight transport, Rail trail, Reading Company, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Richard Nixon, Right-of-way (transportation), Scotia, Pennsylvania, Shortline railroad, Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania, ..., State College, Pennsylvania, Steam locomotive, Stormstown, Pennsylvania, Struble, Pennsylvania, Surrender of Japan, The Arboretum at Penn State, Tussey Mountain, Tyrone, Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, Waddle, Pennsylvania, Warriors Mark, Pennsylvania, World War II, Zig zag (railway). Expand index (13 more) »

American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Amusement park

An amusement park is a park that features various attractions, such as rides and games, as well as other events for entertainment purposes.

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Bald Eagle Mountain

Bald Eagle Mountain – once known locally as Muncy Mountain – is a stratigraphic ridge in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians of central Pennsylvania, USA, running east of the Allegheny Front and northwest of Mount Nittany.

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Beech Creek Railroad

The Beech Creek Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in central Pennsylvania between Jersey Shore and Mahaffey.

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Bellefonte Furnace

Bellefonte Furnace was a hot blast iron furnace located in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.

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Bellefonte, Pennsylvania

Bellefonte is a borough and the county seat of Centre County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Beneficiation

In the mining industry or extractive metallurgy, beneficiation is any process that improves (benefits) the economic value of the ore by removing the gangue minerals, which results in a higher grade product (concentrate) and a waste stream (tailings).

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Carnegie Steel Company

Carnegie Steel Company was a steel producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates, to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century.

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Central Railroad of Pennsylvania (1891–1918)

The Central Railroad of Pennsylvania was a short railroad of built to connect Bellefonte, Pennsylvania with the Beech Creek Railroad (part of the New York Central) at Mill Hall, Pennsylvania.

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Centre County, Pennsylvania

Centre County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Civil engineer

A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Coke (fuel)

Coke is a fuel with a high carbon content and few impurities, usually made from coal.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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EMD SW1200

An EMD SW1200 is a diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January 1954 and May 1966.

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EMD SW9

An EMD SW9 is a diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January 1951 and December 1953.

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G.I. Bill

The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).

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Graysdale, Pennsylvania

Graysdale is an unincorporated community in Patton Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, located at.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

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Horseshoe curve

A horseshoe curve is a class of climbing curve in a roadbed which reverses turn direction (inflection) twice on either side of a single tight curve that varies through an angle of about 180 degrees or more.

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Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company

Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain Railroad (H&BTM) is a former short line railroad company operating passenger and freight service on standard gauge track in south central Pennsylvania.

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Huntingdon, Pennsylvania

Huntingdon is a borough in (and the county seat of) Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Interstate Commerce Commission

The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was a regulatory agency in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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James A. Beaver

James Addams Beaver (October 21, 1837 – January 31, 1914) was an American attorney, recruiter and field commander of Pennsylvania Infantry who was wounded four times during the Civil War, and politician who served as the 20th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891.

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Lime (material)

Lime is a calcium-containing inorganic mineral in which oxides, and hydroxides predominate.

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Mesabi Range

The Mesabi Iron Range is an elongate trend containing large deposits of iron ore, and the largest of four major iron ranges in the region collectively known as the Iron Range of Minnesota.

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Mill Hall, Pennsylvania

Mill Hall is a borough in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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National Gypsum

National Gypsum Company is a company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, that produces drywall gypsum boards in the US.

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New York Central Railroad

The New York Central Railroad was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States.

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Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad

The Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad is a short line railroad that operates of track in Blair, Centre, and Clinton counties in Pennsylvania in the United States.

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Nittany Furnace

Nittany Furnace, known earlier as Valentine Furnace, was a hot blast iron furnace located in Spring Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Overhead line

An overhead line or overhead wire is used to transmit electrical energy to trams, trolleybuses or trains.

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Panic of 1893

The Panic of 1893 was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in 1893 and ended in 1897.

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Penn Central Transportation Company

The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to Penn Central, was an American Class I railroad headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that operated from 1968 until 1976.

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Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Furnace is an unincorporated community in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (or Pennsylvania Railroad Company and also known as the "Pennsy") was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University (commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU) is a state-related, land-grant, doctoral university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.

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Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania

Pine Grove Mills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Queen Anne style architecture

The Queen Anne style in Britain refers to either the English Baroque architectural style approximately of the reign of Queen Anne (reigned 1702–1714), or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century (when it is also known as Queen Anne revival).

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Rail freight transport

Rail freight transport is the use of railroads and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.

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Rail trail

A rail trail is the conversion of a disused railway track into a multi-use path, typically for walking, cycling and sometimes horse riding and snowmobiling.

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Reading Company

The Reading Company was a company that was involved in the railroad industry in southeast Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until 1976.

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was a government corporation in the United States between 1932 and 1957 that provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations, and other businesses.

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Richard Nixon

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was an American politician who served as the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only U.S. president to do so.

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Right-of-way (transportation)

A right-of-way (ROW) is a right to make a way over a piece of land, usually to and from another piece of land.

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Scotia, Pennsylvania

Scotia was a village in Patton Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, at.

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Shortline railroad

A shortline railroad is a small or mid-sized railroad company that operates over a relatively short distance relative to larger, national railroad networks.

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Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania

Spruce Creek is a small unincorporated community in Spruce Creek Township of Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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State College, Pennsylvania

State College is a home rule municipality in Centre County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Stormstown, Pennsylvania

Stormstown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Struble, Pennsylvania

Struble is an unincorporated community in Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Surrender of Japan

The surrender of Imperial Japan was announced on August 15 and formally signed on September 2, 1945, bringing the hostilities of World War II to a close.

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The Arboretum at Penn State

The Arboretum at Penn State (395 acres), which contains the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens, is a new arboretum being created by The Pennsylvania State University adjacent to its University Park campus in State College, Pennsylvania.

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Tussey Mountain

Tussey Mountain is a stratigraphic ridge in central Pennsylvania, United States, trending east of the Bald Eagle, Brush, Dunning and Evitts Mountain ridges.

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Tyrone, Pennsylvania

Tyrone is a borough in Blair County, Pennsylvania, northeast of Altoona, on the Little Juniata River.

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University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh (commonly referred to as Pitt) is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Waddle, Pennsylvania

Waddle is a populated place in Patton Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, about northwest of State College, and located on Buffalo Run Road (Route 550).

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Warriors Mark, Pennsylvania

Warriors Mark is an unincorporated community in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Zig zag (railway)

A railway zig zag, also called a switchback, is a method of climbing steep gradients with minimal need for tunnels and heavy earthworks.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellefonte_Central_Railroad

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