Everett Railroad

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Everett Railroad
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Everett Railroad GP16 1712 passing Renaissance Nutrition near Martinsburg, PA.
Overview
Headquarters Duncansville, Pennsylvania
Reporting mark EV
Locale Pennsylvania
Dates of operation19541982
1984–present
Technical
Track gauge 4 ft 8+12 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge

The Everett Railroad( reporting mark EV) is a shortline and heritage railroad that operates on ex-Pennsylvania Railroad trackage in the Hollidaysburg area of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It runs freight trains over two separate lines, one from Brooks Mill and Sproul, and the other, owned by the Morrison's Cove Railroad, from Roaring Spring to Curryville and Martinsburg.

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The affiliated Hollidaysburg and Roaring Spring Railroad( reporting mark HRS), which the Everett Railroad operates both under contract and via trackage rights, connects the two segments to each other and to the Norfolk Southern Railway (ex-Conrail) in Hollidaysburg. The Everett Railroad name refers to its former location near Everett, abandoned in 1982. [1]

History

The Everett Railroad was incorporated in April 1954 to take over a portion of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company (H&BT) near Everett, which was abandoned in May of that year. [2] The line, which extended north from the end of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Mt. Dallas Branch at Mount Dallas to a point near Tatesville, parallel to PA Route 26, [3] had been constructed from 1859 to 1863 by the Bedford Railroad, which was merged into the H&BT in 1864. [4]

Conrail discontinued service on the then-Mt. Dallas Secondary in October 1982, severing the Everett Railroad's ties to the outside world and forcing its abandonment. [1]

The company was revived in May 1984, when it acquired a part of Conrail's Bedford Secondary between Brooks Mill and Sproul. Completed in 1910 by the Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad, a predecessor of the Pennsylvania Railroad, this line had connected to the Mt. Dallas Secondary near Bedford until 1982. [5]

A second line, the Morrison's Cove Secondary from Roaring Spring to Curryville, along with a short branch into Martinsburg, was acquired by the Morrison's Cove Railroad, organized by local shippers, in mid-1982. [6] The shippers initially contracted with the Allegheny Southern Railway( reporting mark ASRW), which operated the line from September 1982 to the end of 1984, but on January 1, 1985, the Everett Railroad took over operations. [1] This line had been constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad itself in 1871. [5]

Conrail continued to operate the remainder of the Morrison's Cove Secondary, from Roaring Spring through Brooks Mill to Hollidaysburg, until Alan W. Maples, owner of the Everett Railroad, organized the Hollidaysburg and Roaring Spring Railroad (H&RS) and bought the line in March 1995. [1] Simultaneously, the Everett Railroad acquired trackage rights to Hollidaysburg, [7] and began operating the H&RS under contract. [8]

Rolling stock

Currently rostered locomotives

[9] [10]

NumberTypeWheel ArrangementClassificationBuilderBuiltSerial NumberFormerStatusIn ServiceNotes
11Steam 2-6-0 260-111 American Locomotive Company (Cooke Locomotive Works)192062635 Narragansett Pier Railroad

Bath and Hammondsport Railroad

OperationalYesPurchased by the Everett Railroad in 2006. Restored to operating condition in October 2015. Converted to burn oil in March 2022.
38 Steam 2-8-0 Class 37 Baldwin Locomotive Works 192759946 Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company Undergoing restorationNoPurchased at an auction from the Knox and Kane Railroad in 2008.
4DieselB-B GE 80-ton switcher General Electric 194318065 United States Army Transportation Corps In storageNoPurchased in 1971.
18DieselB-B GE 65-ton switcher General Electric195030497East Jersey Railroad and Terminal CompanyIn storageNoPurchased in 2019.
1712DieselB-B EMD GP16 Electro-Motive Diesel 195013538 Clinchfield Railroad Seaboard Coast Line Railroad

Seaboard System Railroad CSX Transportation R.J. Corman Railroad Group

OperationalYesPurchased in 2002.
1828DieselB-BEMD GP16Electro-Motive Diesel195217370 Seaboard Air Line Railroad

Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Seaboard System Railroad CSX Transportation R.J. Corman Railroad Group

OperationalYesPurchased in 2001.

Formerly rostered locomotives

NumberTypeWheel ArrangementClassificationBuilderBuiltSerial NumberCurrent ownerStatusIn ServiceNotes
11Steam 2-6-2 Class 200

[11]

Baldwin Locomotive Works190933333Everett Railroad Station MuseumStatic displayNoFormerly Kanawha Glen Jean And Eastern (McKell Coal), then Morehead and Northfork, pulled excursion trains for the Everett from 1964 to 1971. It has remained on static display in Everett since 2000. [12]
561DieselB-B GE Dash 8-32B General Electric198946516Northern Illinois and Wisconsin RailwayOperationalYesServed the Everett Railroad from 2017 to 2021.

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