Hobo's Guide to the Pennsy

1945 CT1000 Entries

The 1945 edition of the CT1000 shows the following entries:

MAIN LINE

Lewistown, Pa. (XA)

60.7 Station

Pennsy Steam Years 2 offers a nice color photo of the hotel/restaurant circa 1954 on page 81.

60.8 Car Shop Siding

LEWISTOWN BRANCH

[The CT1000, for whatever reason, does not designate this as the Lewistown Branch. It obviously is, and is not part of the main line itself.]

Lewistown, Pa. (XA)

0.0 Shops

0.0 American Viscose Corp.

American Viscose manufactured rayon fiber (primarily for rayon-belted automobile tires), polyester and Avistrap. Page 90 of Triumph IV offers an excellent 1950 aerial photograph. The plant closed in 1972 following hurricane Agnes.

Pennsylvania Railroad Color Pictorial 3, p. 63, shows a BS12 shifting coal cars in/out of the plant in 1965... indicating the plant was busy enough to warrant two switches a day.

0.2 Station

This references the back side of the main line station.

0.2 Scales

[The bridge over the Juniata River is in this gap.]

0.9 Main Street

1.0 Franciscus Co.

1.1 Mann Edge Tool Co.

A photograph of this structure appear on page 9 of Lewistown and the Pennsyvania Railroad (PRRT&HS). They made axes that were used across the U.S. in the construction of railroads.

From 1930s aerial photographs, I believe this structure ran parallel to Chestnut Street.

1.1 Freight Station

Two photographs of this structure appear on pages 105-106 of Lewistown and the Pennsyvania Railroad (PRRT&HS). This structure was on Chestnut Street.

1.3 Jct. Milroy Branch

1.3 Jct. Furnace Branch Siding

[Trailing point connection; see below.]

[From here eastward this is the Lewistown Branch of the Susquehanna Division (post-1951 reorganization; previously in the Wilkes-Barre Division).]

FURNACE BRANCH SIDING (LN)

1.4 M. W. Brandt

1.5 The Hoffman Co.

1.5 M. H. Wiker No. 1

1.5 M. H. Wiker No. 2 and Atlantic States Gas Co.

1.8 J. Krentzman

1.8 Sun Oil Co. No. 1 and Lewistown Ice & Storage Co.

2.0 Juniata Gas & Oil Co.

2.1 Lewis Sitkin

2.2 Penna. Edison Co. No. 1

2.2 American Gas Co.

2.3 Susquehanna Silk Co. and Overhead Door Co.

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LN = Lewistown = includes all points in Lewistown Yard not otherwise designated.

MILROY BRANCH

Lewistown, Pa. (LN)

0.0 Junc. Wilkes-Barre Division

The North American Tanery was on the northeast corner of Chestnut and Shaw, roughly where the S&L branch connected, and was a massive industrial structure. A photograph of this structure is on page 106 of Lewistown and the Pennsyvania Railroad (PRRT&HS). It is identified as the North American Tannery and it burned to the ground in 1950. It is also shown on the map on pages 6-7 of the same book.

Ellis' History of Mifflin County cites "The North American Tannery had its inception in 1866, when Jacob Spanogle, Andrew J. and Andrew Spanogle, under the firm-name of Jacob Spanogle & Co., purchased thirteen acres of land of James Burns, on the limits of Lewistown borough, and in Derry township. Upon this tract they erected a brick tannery, two hundred and thirty-one feet by forty-five, with an L one hundred and ninety-five feet by thirty-five, with slate roof, and filled with two hundred and ten tanning-vats, twenty-eight leaches and six limes and soaks and seven pools, having a capacity of tanning twelve thousand hides per annum. The firm continued until 1876, when it was changed to Spanogle & Panebaker, and was operated by them until 1880, when the property was bought by William M. Panebaker, who continued until the spring of 1884, when D. P. Lease and T. E. McVitty, of Philadelphia, became associated with him, and the business, from that time, has been conducted under the name of W. M. Panebaker & Co."

0.3 Atlantic Refining Co. No. 2

0.4 James Goss

0.4 Supplee-Wills-Jones & Co. No. 1

0.9 Standard Oil Co. No. 1

Lewistown, Pa. (3902)

1.1 Spanogle-Yeager Milling Co.

This was just south of where the McDonald's restaurant is today on Electric Avenue.

1.1 Lewistown Transportation Co.

1.5 H. E. Knepp, Sinclair Refining Co. No. 1 and Independent Oil Co. No. 1

Burnham, Pa. (3904)

A photograph of a tower at this location is on page 116 of Lewistown and the Pennsyvania Railroad (PRRT&HS).

2.3 J. H. Miller

2.3 Passing Siding (West End)

2.6 Station

A photograph of this structure is on page 116 of Lewistown and the Pennsyvania Railroad (PRRT&HS).

2.8 Logan Iron & Steel Co. No. 1

3.1 Logan Iron & Steel Co. No. 2

Page 54 of Lewistown and the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRRT&HS) indicates that this entity went bankrupt in May 1946. The property was purchased by the Kovalchick Salvage Company. A portion was developed as a shopping mall and the remainder survives as a salvage yard.

Yeagertown (3905)

A photograph of a tower and signal building, as well as a shelter, are on pages 116-117 of Lewistown and the Pennsyvania Railroad (PRRT&HS).

3.3 Standard Steel Works Co. No. 4

3.3 Standard Steel Works Co. No. 3

3.5 J. M. Yeager No. 1

3.5 J. M. Yeager No. 2

A possible photograph of one of the Yeager structures is on page 116 of Lewistown and the Pennsyvania Railroad (PRRT&HS).

3.6 Passing Siding (East End)

3.7 Standard Steel Works Co. No. 6

3.7 Standard Steel Works Co. No. 7

Todd Treaster believes this plant was still shipping 20-30 cars a day through the 1950s.

Standard Steel continues operations today.

Reedsville, Pa. (3907)

A photograph of a water tower at this location is on page 117 of Lewistown and the Pennsyvania Railroad (PRRT&HS).

5.4 Station

Four photographs of this structure are on pages 118-119 of Lewistown and the Pennsyvania Railroad (PRRT&HS).

5.4 Passing Siding

Shraders, Pa. (3909)

9.1 National Limestone Co. -- East End

Todd Treaster believes this quarry was still shipping 50 cars of stone a day through the 1950s.

Photograph of the rock bins at the quarry at Naginey.

Naginey, Pa. (3911)

A photograph of a shelter, "between Reedsville and Naginey", is on page 119 of Lewistown and the Pennsyvania Railroad (PRRT&HS).

9.4 Bethlehem Steel Co. No. 1

9.6 Bethlehem Steel Co. No. 2

A photograph of a shelter, "between Naginey and Milroy", is on page 119 of Lewistown and the Pennsyvania Railroad (PRRT&HS).

Milroy, Pa. (3912)

10.9 Public Track and Belleville Flour Mills

11.0 West Leg "Y"

11.1 East Leg "Y"

11.1 Station

A photograph of this structure is on page 119 of Lewistown and the Pennsyvania Railroad (PRRT&HS).