Excerpt from Locomotive Building, Vol. 1: Main and Side Rods

Altoona is the focus of railway activity in western Pennsylvania. It forms the terminal of the Eastern and Western Pennsylvania Divisions, and there is scarcely a moment of the day when trains are not arriving or departing. The density of the traffic is best realized, perhaps, by sitting on the slope of the mountain-side above the Horseshoe Curve and watching the, trains slowly panting upward or carefully sliding down the heavy grade. Apparently there is not an hour of the twenty-four, when one or more trains are not visible from this point. The sound of laboring locomotives and clanking couplings ceases not by day or night, year in or year out.

Aside from its importance as a division terminal, the town is still further distinguished by being the location of an immense system of railroad shops. 'it has, in fact, probably the largest railroad pcpu lation in the world, numbering about seventy thousand inhabitants. The only other business of any size in the place employs not over one thousand workmen. All the miscellaneous industrial activities, such as those of the storekeepers, doctors, street-car employes, policemen, preachers, etc., must be credited to the railroad, as they serve the railroad employes, and without them they would be out of work. The Pennsylvania Co. Has here an immense locomotive repair shop, a locomotive testing plant, car shops, and foundry; and a locomotive building plant at Juniata, a suburb toward the east. It is the prac tice in this latter shop which will be described in the following.

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