# Bedford Branch

The Bedford Branch, previously the Bedford Division and then the Juniata Division, was a rail line owned and operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Middle Division in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.
The line ran from the Morrisons Cove Branch at Brookes Mills south via Bedford to the Maryland state line. The PRR had trackage rights south to Cumberland over the Western Maryland Railway's State Line Branch. Only the line from Brookes Mills south to Sproul is still in use, as a line of the Everett Railroad.

## History

The Bedford and Bridgeport Railroad opened from the state line north via Bedford to Mount Dallas (at the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company) in 1871; the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad built a connecting branch in Maryland. The Dunnings Creek Branch, later part of the main line, opened from Dunnings Creek Junction (near Bedford) north, through Cessna, to ore mines at Holderbaum in 1873. The Pennsylvania Railroad in Maryland was chartered in 1876 to build an independent connection from the state line to Cumberland. The road opened in 1879 and in 1888 was merged into the Georges Creek and Cumberland Railroad and later became part of the Western Maryland Railway.
In 1891, the Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad opened an extension from Cessna north to near Imler, and completed the line to Brookes Mills in 1910. This connected it to the rest of the PRR system via the Morrisons Cove Branch; it had formerly only been connected via the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company.

## Infrastructure

Two editions of the Pennsylvania Railroad's CT 1000, Lists of Stations and Sidings and Instructions for Making Reports to the Superintendent Car Service, (1923, 1945) serve as the basic guide for the line.

### Brookes Mills, Pa to Dunning's Creek Junction, Pa

| | Station | CT-1000 Edition | Note | Lineside Facilities | Dist. from Brookes Mills |
| 5115 | Brookes Mills, Pa | 1923/1945 | Jct. Morison's Cove Branch | Telephone Office | 0.0 |
| 5115 | Brookes Mills, Pa | 1923 | Jct. Morison's Cove Branch | Passing Siding | 0.2 |
| | BROOK | | Block-Limit Station | | 0.0 |
| 4070 | Brookes Mills, Pa | 1923 | Station | No siding | 0.0 |
| 4070 | Brookes Mills, Pa | 1923/1945 | Passing Siding | No carload delivery | 0.2 |
| 4070 | Brookes Mills, Pa | 1923 | Interchange Siding | Siding - No carload delivery | 0.4 |
| 4070 | Brookes Mills, Pa | 1945 | Standard Oil Co. No. 3 | Siding for individual use | 1.1 |
| 4071 | East Freedom, Pa | 1945 | Station | Telephone Office | 1.5 |
| | | 1923 | E. R. Baldridge & Co. No. 1 | Siding for individual use | 5.4 |
| 4072 | Claysburg, Pa | 1923/1945 | General Refractories Co. No. 6 | Siding for individual use | 5.4 |
| 4072 | Claysburg, Pa | 1923/1945 | Station | Telephone Office Water tower | 6.1 |
| 4072 | Claysburg, Pa | 1945 | L. H. Diehl | Siding for individual use | 6.2 |
| 4072 | Claysburg, Pa | 1923/1945 | Passing Siding | No carload delivery | 6.3 |
| 4074 | Sproul, Pa | 1923/1945 | General Refractories Co. No. 3 ('23), No. 7 ('45) | Siding for individual use | 7.4 |
| 4074 | Sproul, Pa | 1923 | Station | Telephone Office | 7.6 |
| 4075 | Queen, Pa | Prior to 1923 | Passing Siding | | |
| 4075 | Queen, Pa | 1923 | Station | Telephone Office | 9.2 |
| 4075 | Queen, Pa | 1945 | | Telephone Office | 9.2 |
| 4076 | Summit, Pa | 1923 | Passing Siding | No carload delovery | 10.2 |
| 4078 | Imler, Pa | 1923/1945 | Passing Siding | No carload delivery | 13.0 |
| 4078 | Imler, Pa | 1923 | Station | Telephone Office | 13.3 |
| 4080 | Osterberg, Pa | 1923 | Passing Siding | No carload delivery | 15.6 |
| 4080 | Osterberg, Pa | 1923 | Station | Telephone Office | 15.7 |
| 4080 | Osterberg, Pa | 1945 | | Telephone Office | 15.7 |
| 4081 | Reynoldsdale, Pa | 1923 | Passing Siding | No carload delivery | 18.0 |
| 4081 | Reynoldsdale, Pa | 1923 | Station | Telephone Office | 18.1 |
| 4081 | Reynoldsdale, Pa | 1945 | | Telephone Office | 18.1 |
| 4082 | Fishertown, Pa | 1923/1945 | Station | Telephone Office | 20.3 |
| 4084 | Cessna, Pa | 1923/1945 | Passing Siding | No carload delivery | 22.0 |
| 4085 | Cessna, Pa | 1923 | Station | Telephone Office | 22.6 |
| 4085 | Cessna, Pa | 1945 | | Telephone Office | 22.6 |
| 4085 | Cessna, Pa | 1923 | Blackburn Milling Co. | Siding for individual use | 22.6 |
| | Smith's Crossing, Pa | 1923 | Station | No siding | 24.1 |
| | Hughes, Pa | 1923 | Station | No siding | 25.9 |
| 4090 | Younts, Pa | 1923 | Station | | 27.3 |
| 4090 | Younts, Pa | 1945 | | | 27.3 |
| 4091 | Younts, Pa | 1923 | Passing siding | No carload delivery | 27.5 |
| | Chalybeate, Pa | 1923 | Station | No siding | 29.9 |
| | CREEK | | Block-Limit Station | | 30.4 |
| 4092 | Dunning's Creek Jct | 1945 | | No siding | 30.5 |

### Mt. Dallas Branch, Pa

| | Station | CT-1000 Edition | Note | Lineside Facilities | Distance From Mt. Dallas | Distance From Brookes Mills |
| | CREEK | | Block-Limit Station | | 7.0 | 30.4 |
| 4092 | Dunning's Creek Jct | 1923/1945 | Jct Mt. Dallas Branch | No siding | 6.9 | 30.5 |
| 4150 | Cliffs, Pa | 1923 | Station | No siding | 6.4 | 31.0 |
| 4150 | Cliffs, Pa | 1923 | Tate Ganister Rock Co. | For individual use | 6.2 | 31.2 |
| 4148 | Hartley, Pa | 1923 | Station | No siding | 4.2 | 33.2 |
| 4148 | Hartley, Pa | 1923 | Passing | No carload delivery | 4.3 | 33.1 |
| 4147 | Lutzville, Pa | 1923 | Station | | 3.3 | 34.1 |
| 4147 | Lutzville, Pa | 1945 | | | 3.3 | 34.1 |
| 4146 | Ashcom, Pa | 1923 | J. E. Thropp No. 4 | For individual use | 1.7 | 35.7 |
| 4146 | Ashcom, Pa | 1945 | New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co. No. 2 | For individual use | 1.7 | 35.7 |
| 4146 | Ashcom, Pa | 1923 | Station | | 1.7 | 35.7 |
| 4145 | Earlston, Pa | 1923 | Barclay Gannister Rock Co. | For individual use | 0.3 | 37.1 |
| 4145 | Earlston, Pa | 1923 | J. E. Thropp No. 1 | For individual use/Switch connection with H&BTMRR | 0.3 | 37.1 |
| MD | Mt. Dallas, Pa | 1923/1945 | Jct H&BTMRR | Telephone Office | | 37.4 |
| MD | Mt. Dallas, Pa | 1923/1945 | Passing Siding | No carload delivery | | 37.4 |
| | DALLAS | | Block-Limit Station | | | 37.4 |

### Dunning's Creek Junction, Pa to Cumberland, Md

| | Station | CT-1000 Edition | Note | Lineside Facilities | Distance From Mt. Dallas | Distance From Brookes Mills |
| | | 1923 | Allen C. Blackburn | For individual use | 7.3 | 30.9 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1945 | Kund Cabinet Co. | For individual use | 7.3 | 30.9 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1923/1945 | Davidson Bros. | For individual use | 7.8 | 31.4 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1923 | Bedford Electric Light, Heat, & Power Co | For individual use | 7.8 | 31.4 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1923/1945 | Public Delivery | For individual use | 7.9 | 31.5 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1923 | Blackburn-Russell Co, and Public Delivery | For individual use | 7.9 | 31.5 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1923 | Public Delivery and H. C. Metzger Supply Co. | For individual use | 7.9 | 31.5 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1945 | Blackburn-Russell Co. and Freight House | For individual use | 7.9 | 31.5 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1945 | FORD - Block-Limit Station | | 7.9 | 31.5 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1945 | W. R. Lysinger and May & Bigley | For individual use | 8.0 | 31.6 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1923/1945 | Station | Telephone Office | 8.0 | 31.6 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1923/1945 | Station | Water tower | 8.0 | 31.6 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1923/1945 | Station | Turntable and Engineshed | 8.0 | 31.6 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1923/1945 | Carlton Heckerman | For individual use | 8.3 | 31.9 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1945 | Sinclair Refining Co. No. 5 | For individual use | 8.3 | 31.9 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1945 | Public delivery | For individual use | 8.3 | 31.9 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1923/1945 | Supplee-Wills-Jones Co. No. 2 | For individual use | 8.4 | 32.0 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1945 | The Texas Co. | For individual use | 8.4 | 32.0 |
| 4152 | Bedford, Pa | 1945 | Petroleum Economy Products Co. | For individual use | 8.5 | 32.1 |
| 4155 | Wolfsburg, Pa | 1923 | Station | Telephone Office | 10.8 | 34.5 |
| 4155 | Wolfsburg, Pa | 1945 | | | 10.8 | 34.5 |
| 4155A | Atlantic Refining Co. No. 9 | 1923/1945 | | For individual use | 11.5 | 35.2 |
| 4156 | E. R. Baldridge & Co. No. 2 | 1923/1945 | | For individual use | 11.7 | 35.4 |
| 4157 | Napier, Pa | 1923 | Station | | 12.9 | 36.5 |
| 4160 | Manns Choice, Pa | 1923 | Passing Siding | No carload delivery | 15.6 | 39.2 |
| 4160 | Manns Choice, Pa | 1923/1945 | Station | Telephone Office | 15.9 | 39.5 |
| 4160 | Manns Choice, Pa | 1923 | John M. Egolf & H. F. W. Miller | For individual use | 16.3 | 39.9 |
| 4160 | Manns Choice, Pa | 1923 | Elk Tanning Co. No. 10 | For individual use | 16.3 | 39.9 |
| 4164 | Sulphur Springs | 1923 | Station | | 18.1 | 41.7 |
| 4165 | Buffalo Mills, Pa | 1923/1945 | Station | Telephone Office | 21.1 | 44.7 |
| 4165 | Buffalo Mills, Pa | 1923/1945 | Passing Siding | No carload delivery | 21.3 | 44.9 |
| 4167 | Bard, Pa | 1923 | Station | | 22.5 | 46.1 |
| 4169 | Madley, Pa | 1923 | Station | | 24.8 | 48.4 |
| 4169 | Madley, Pa | 1945 | | | 24.8 | 48.4 |
| 4169A | Leap Ganister Rock Co. | 1945 | | For individual use | 25.2 | 48.8 |
| 4170 | Fossilville Gravel Pit | 1923 | | For individual use | 26.4 | 50.1 |
| HY | Hyndman, Pa | 1945 | Station | Telephone Office | 31.0 | 54.6 |
| HY | Hyndman, Pa | 1945 | Jct. B&O RR | | 31.2 | 54.8 |
| HY | Hyndman, Pa | 1945 | Penna. Post & Lumber Co. | For individual use | 31.2 | 54.8 |
| | STATE | | Block-Limit Station | | 37.1 | 60.7 |
| 4182 | State Line, Pa | | | Telephone Office | 38.4 | 62.0 |
| 4182 | State Line, Pa | 1945 | Shops | Roundhouse https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_ME00596A | 38.6 | 62.3 |
| 4182 | State Line, Pa | 1945 | Shops | Turntable | 38.6 | 62.3 |
| 4182 | State Line, Pa | 1945 | Shops | Coaling | 38.6 | 62.3 |
| 4182 | State Line, Pa | 1945 | Shops | Water https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_ME00592A | 38.6 | 62.3 |
| 4182 | State Line, Pa | 1945 | Shops | Yard https://digital.hagley.org/PRR_ME00595A | 38.6 | 62.3 |
| 4182 | State Line, Pa | 1945 | Passing Siding | No carload delivery | 38.6 | 62.3 |
| 4182 | State Line, Pa | 1945 | Jct. Cumberland & Pennsylvania RR | | 38.7 | 62.3 |
| CU | Cumberland, Md | 1945 | Jct. Western Maryland Railway | | 38.4 | 62.0 |
| CU | Cumberland, Md | 1945 | Pennsylvania-Maryland State Line | No siding | 38.6 | 62.3 |
| CU | Cumberland, Md | 1945 | City Jct. B&O RR | Telephone Office | 44.1 | 67.7 |
| CU | Cumberland, Md | 1945 | Station | Telephone Office | 45.0 | 68.6 |
| CU | Cumberland, Md | 1945 | Ridgley Yard | | 46.0 | 69.6 |