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File:East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company, Foundry, State Route 994, West of U.S. Route 522, Rockhill Furnace, Huntingdon County, PA HAER PA,31-ROCFN,1D- (sheet 3 of 4).tif

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HAER PA,31-ROCFN,1D- (sheet 3 of 4) - East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company, Foundry, State Route 994, West of U.S. Route 522, Rockhill Furnace, Huntingdon County, PA
Photographer
Behrens, Thomas M.
Title
HAER PA,31-ROCFN,1D- (sheet 3 of 4) - East Broad Top Railroad and Coal Company, Foundry, State Route 994, West of U.S. Route 522, Rockhill Furnace, Huntingdon County, PA
Description
Perrottet and Hoyt; Benz, transmitter; Dixon, Robert, delineator; Yang, Isabel, delineator
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Huntingdon County; Rockhill Furnace
Date 1994
date QS:P571,+1994-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER PA,31-ROCFN,1D- (sheet 3 of 4)
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  • Significance: The Foundry, along with the Machine Shop and Blacksmith Shop, was one of the three primary metalworking shops at the East Broad Top Railroad Shop Complex. When constructed in 1885, the wood-frame, board-and-batten sided Foundry was an important contributor to the Railroads' material self-sufficiency. The Foundry supplied iron castings to the Railroad, and also to the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company mines, area industries such as glass sand processing plants, and even cast articles such as plow blades for local farmers. The Foundry utilized a coke-fired, air -blast iron melting cupola and a natural draft brass melting crucible for producing ferrous and non-ferrous castings respectively. Prior to World War I, the EBT added a pattern shop to the Foundry, and a two-story raw material charging deck with a pneumatic hoist. The Foundry has not operated since the EBT ceased operations in 1956, and remains in essentially original condition.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N285
  • Survey number: HAER PA-127-D
  • Building/structure dates: 1885 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 66000666.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3373.sheet.00003a
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Object location40° 14′ 30.01″ N, 77° 54′ 00″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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