[PRCo] Fwd: Oil City counterbalance(!)

[Daria Phoebe Brashear]

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 8:47 PM, Edward Skuchas <eskuchas at comcast.net> wrote:

> But. Is that incline in Oil City a car on the gravity railroad system?
> Ed
>

""The present platting of the city was begun in 1869 by W. R. STEVENSON and
lasted two or three years, the chief addition being the upper and lower
ends of the south side,
Palace Hill, and parts of upper Cottage Hill. In 1872 Messrs. CLARK and
PORTEOUS laid off Clark's Summit
and an incline railway was built, the bed of which is still visible (1890).
This was about four hundred and sixty feet high by one thousand six hundred
feet long with a double track
upon which ran two passenger and two team cars, operated by cables and
steam.
The cost was about thirty-five thousand dollars. The plan was intended to
have made the summit a place of residence,
but defective land title and the panic of 1873 caused the scheme to be
gradually abandoned, so that the plane machinery was removed about 1879. ""

from: History of Venango County Pennsylvania
Its Past and Present, Chicago, IL.
Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers; 1890; pp. 436- 439


The railroad in the tunnel is looking northeast where Halyday St goes up
the hill from route 62, basically, so it fits with the incline. The
railroad portal at that end of the tunnel was sealed tho I think the other
end is still open.

The picture appears to be one that appeared in the local newspaper in 1976:
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/67044289/

-- 
Daria Phoebe Brashear
AuriStor, Inc
dariaphoebe.com



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