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64 relations: American football, Amusement park, Bald Eagle Mountain, Beech Creek Railroad, Bellefonte Furnace, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, 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, Lemont, Pennsylvania, Lime (material), Mesabi Range, Mill Hall, Pennsylvania, Mineral processing, 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 in the United States, Rail freight transport, Rail trail, Reading Company, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Richard Nixon, Right of way, Scotia, Pennsylvania, Shortline railroad, ... Expand index (14 more) »
- Nittany Valley
- Railway companies disestablished in 1984
- Railway companies established in 1892
American football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, 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, United States, running east of the Allegheny Front and northwest of Mount Nittany. Bellefonte Central Railroad and Bald Eagle Mountain are Nittany Valley.
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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 in, and the county seat of, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. Bellefonte Central Railroad and Bellefonte, Pennsylvania are Nittany Valley.
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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. Bellefonte Central Railroad and Central Railroad of Pennsylvania (1891–1918) are defunct Pennsylvania railroads and Nittany Valley.
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Centre County, Pennsylvania
Centre County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States.
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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 infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructure that may have been neglected.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.
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Coke (fuel)
Coke is a grey, hard, and porous coal-based fuel with a high carbon content.
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Diesel locomotive
A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the power source is a diesel engine.
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EMD SW1200
An EMD SW1200 is a four-axle diesel switcher locomotive built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between January 1954 and May 1966.
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EMD SW9
The EMD SW9 is a model of diesel switcher locomotives built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division between November 1950 and December 1953.
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G.I. Bill
The G.I. Bill, formally known as the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, was a law that provided a range of benefits for some of the 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, United States, located at. Bellefonte Central Railroad and Graysdale, Pennsylvania are Nittany Valley.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Horseshoe curve
A horseshoe curve is a class of climbing curve in a roadbed that 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 and 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. Bellefonte Central Railroad and Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company are defunct Pennsylvania railroads.
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Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Huntingdon is a borough in and 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 American Civil War, and politician who served as the 20th governor of Pennsylvania from 1887 to 1891.
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Lemont, Pennsylvania
Lemont is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States, and is the location of the only remaining granary in Pennsylvania.
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Lime (material)
Lime is an inorganic material composed primarily of calcium oxides and hydroxides.
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Mesabi Range
The Mesabi Iron Range is a mining district and mountain range in northeastern Minnesota following an elongate trend containing large deposits of iron ore.
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Mill Hall, Pennsylvania
Mill Hall is a borough in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Mineral processing
Mineral processing is the process of separating commercially valuable minerals from their ores in the field of extractive metallurgy.
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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 primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Bellefonte Central Railroad and New York Central Railroad are defunct Pennsylvania railroads.
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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 an electrical cable that is used to transmit electrical energy to electric locomotives, electric multiple units, trolleybuses or trams.
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Panic of 1893
The Panic of 1893 was an 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 that operated from 1968 to 1976. Bellefonte Central Railroad and Penn Central Transportation Company are defunct Pennsylvania railroads.
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Pennsylvania Furnace, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Furnace is an unincorporated community located in Franklin Township, Huntingdon County and in Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
The Pennsylvania Railroad (reporting mark PRR), legal name The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, also known as the "Pennsy", was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Bellefonte Central Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad are defunct Pennsylvania railroads.
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Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State and sometimes by the acronym PSU, is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.
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Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania
Pine Grove Mills is an unincorporated community, village, and census-designated place (CDP) in Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh is a city in and the county seat of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
Queen Anne style architecture was one of a number of popular Victorian architectural styles that emerged in the United States during the period from roughly 1880 to 1910.
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Rail freight transport
Rail freight transport is the use of railways and trains to transport cargo as opposed to human passengers.
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Rail trail
A rail trail is a shared-use path on railway right of way.
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Reading Company
The Reading Company was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided passenger and freight transport in eastern Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until its acquisition by Conrail in 1976. Bellefonte Central Railroad and Reading Company are defunct Pennsylvania railroads.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was an independent agency of the United States federal government that served as a lender of last resort to US banks and businesses.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 37th president of the United States from 1969 to 1974.
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Right of way
A right of way (also right-of-way) is a transportation corridor along which people, animals, vehicles, watercraft, or utility lines travel, or the legal status that gives them the right to do so.
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Scotia, Pennsylvania
Scotia was an American village that was located 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 an unincorporated community in Spruce Creek Township, Pennsylvania, United States.
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State College, Pennsylvania
State College is a home rule municipality in Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.
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Stormstown, Pennsylvania
Stormstown is a census-designated place (CDP) in Halfmoon Township, 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 the Empire of Japan in World War II was announced by Emperor Hirohito on 15 August and formally signed on 2 September 1945, ending the war.
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The Arboretum at Penn State
The Arboretum at Penn State (370 acres), which contains the H.O. Smith Botanic Gardens, is a new arboretum at 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, United States, located northeast of Altoona, on the Little Juniata River.
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University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh (also known as Pitt) is a public state-related research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Waddle, Pennsylvania
Waddle is a populated place in Patton Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States, approximately 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 or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Zig zag (railway)
A railway zig zag or switchback is a railway operation in which a train is required to switch its direction of travel in order to continue its journey.
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See also
Nittany Valley
- Bald Eagle Mountain
- Bellefonte Central Railroad
- Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
- Central Railroad of Pennsylvania (1891–1918)
- Graysdale, Pennsylvania
- Interstate 99
- Mount Nittany
- Nittany Valley
- Nittany Valley Railroad
Railway companies disestablished in 1984
- Bellefonte Central Railroad
- Detroit Terminal Railroad
- Ferrocarril del Pacífico
- Mackinac Transportation Company
- Montour Railroad
- Port Huron and Detroit Railroad
- Seattle and North Coast Railroad
Railway companies established in 1892
- Abbeville Southern Railway
- Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad
- Arkansas Southern Railroad (1892–1905)
- Atlantic Short Line Railway
- Bellefonte Central Railroad
- Berkeley Railroad
- Big Stony Railway
- Cache Valley Railroad
- Carson and Colorado Railway
- Chicago Great Western Railway
- Donegal Railway Company
- East Side Railway
- Entre Ríos Railway
- Ferrocarril Económico Correntino
- Hornell Traction Company
- Kristiania Elektriske Sporvei
- Middlesex Valley Railroad
- Midland Terminal Railway
- Mohawk and Malone Railway
- New York Connecting Railroad
- Oconee and Western Railroad
- Santa Ana and Newport Railway
- South and North Carolina Railroad
- Toronto Belt Line Railway
- Trams in Panama
- Wilkes-Barre and Eastern Railroad
References
Also known as Bellefonte & Buffalo Run RR, Bellefonte & Buffalo Run Railroad, Bellefonte and Buffalo Run RR, Bellefonte and Buffalo Run Railroad, Buffalo Run, Bellefonte & Bald Eagle RR, Buffalo Run, Bellefonte & Bald Eagle Railroad, Buffalo Run, Bellefonte and Bald Eagle RR, Buffalo Run, Bellefonte and Bald Eagle Railroad, Nittany Valley & Southern RR, Nittany Valley & Southern Railroad, Nittany Valley and Southern RR, Nittany Valley and Southern Railroad.