PRR Interlocking Diagrams: Harrisburg to Altoona Branches
THE  BROAD  WAY

A Pennsylvania Railroad Home Page
PRR INTERLOCKING  DIAGRAMS

HARRISBURG  TO  ALTOONA
BRANCHES  AND  YARDS

[ Note to Contributors | Copyright & Licensing Agreement | Acknowledgements ]

Altoona Yard

No maps, but this information is available, from a 1946 blueprint:
Westward Yard
Empty receiving yard: 853 cars, 10 tracks
Loaded receiving yard: 211 cars, 6 tracks
Loaded classification yard: 540 cars, 13 tracks
Empty yard: 1365 cars, 25 tracks
Preference and advance tracks: 1502 cars, 18 tracks
TOTALS: 4471 cars, 72 tracks

Eastward Yard
Receiving yard: 1791 cars, 25 tracks
Classification yard: 2427 cars, 32 tracks
Advance yard: 578 cars, 7 tracks
TOTALS: 4796 cars, 64 tracks

Total capacity all other tracks and sidings
(excluding 32.62 miles Altoona Works industrial sidings):
7698 cars

Hollidaysburg & Petersburg Branch; New Portage Secondary, etc.

H&P Branch proceeds westward from PETE interlocking on the Harrisburg to Altoona main. PETE is controlled by HUNT (? a Conrail change) to WYE. From WYE westward, around the Mule Shoe Curve, to SF interlocking this was called the New Portage Branch. ??? Branch (present-day Cove Secondary) starts at ALTO and proceeds (geographically) south.

WYE, Hollidaysburg, Pa. (117K, 200 dpi)

Bald Eagle Branch

Home
Mark's Railroad-Related Stuff
The Broad Way: A Pennsylvania Railroad Home Page
Maps of the PRR
Interlocking Diagrams
Harrisburg to Altoona: Branches and Yards

Mark D. Bej
bejm@eeg.ccf.org
+1 216-444-0119
1998-12-03