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A Brief History of the Wopsononock Resort & Railroad
Significant development of Wopsononock Mountain—part of the Allegheny Mountains west of Altoona,…
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‘The House by the Track’ by Robert Fleming Lantz, 1916
Robert Fleming Lantz was a well-known local poet in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and…
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“#30 Wopsononock Train”, 1913
This Wopsy Railroad Real Photo Post Card (RPPC) was printed in limited…
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“A Trip to Wopsononock”
A Trip to WopsononockHollidaysburg RegisterSeptember 6, 1893 “Recently, the writer enjoyed a…
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1899 Wopsy Railroad & Resort Pamphlet
This 1899 Wopsononock Time Table & Tourist’s Guide was reprinted for the…
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Altoona & Northern Railroad Station Built, 1916
In the early 1890s, the Altoona & Wopsononock Railroad maintained at the…
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Altoona & Wopsononock Railroad Locomotive, circa 1891
This evocative photograph from around 1891 shows a narrow-gauge steam locomotive of…
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Altoona, Clearfield & Northern – A Narrow-Gauge Railroad
The Wopsononock Railroad was narrow-gauge until 1916, when a third rail was…
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Altoona, Clearfield and Northern Locomotive, 1892
From The Alley Popper: A History of the Pittsburgh & Susquehanna and…
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Altoona, Clearfield and Northern Railroad Locomotive, 1893
This Wopsy Railroad mixed-use train was published in Art Work of Blair…
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Carousel in the Wopsononock Park
Photo of Wopsy Carousel ruins taken by the author. A merry-go-round was…
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First Lutheran Sunday School to Picnic at Wopsy
On June 23, 1914, First Lutheran Church, 12th Ave., Altoona had its…
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Formal Opening of the Altoona & Wopsononock Railroad, Altoona Tribune, 1891
Date: July 2, 1891Source: Altoona Tribune, Page 1 This article reports on…
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Gable’s Department Store Wopsy Postcards, Circa 1915
Gable’s was a major department store open in downtown Altoona, PA from…
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Hotel Addition, Circa 1892
This photo, source unknown, from some time late in the history of…
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Hotel Dining Room, 1889-1903
These photos from negatives from the Altoona Public Library show the elegant…
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John Schenk Family Wopsy Cottage
The Wopsononock Hotel opened for business in early July 1889. Although the…
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Lawn Tennis and Other Wopsy Resort Amenities
This rare Wopsy Hotel image was part of a group of 4…
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Lookout Tower Destruction
On October 29, 1907, strong winds took the top two stories of…
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Maps of Wopsononock
Historic maps, like old photographs, offer a clear view into the past.…
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Origins of the name “Wopsononock”
Origins of “Wopsononock” as a place name are mixed and not definitive,…
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Out Broadway to Wopsononock Lookout, 1905
From Views of Altoona, L.H.Nelson Co., 1905. Looking toward Point Lookout on…
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Panoramic View of Altoona, Clearfield & Northern RR Rounding Sandy Gap Trestle
A panoramic photograph of the Altoona, Clearfield & Northern narrow-gauge railroad rounding…
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Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Ebensburg & Eastern Locomotive, Late 1890s
From The Alley Popper: A History of the Pittsburgh & Susquehanna and…
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Road To Lookout Photo, Circa 1890
The photograph shows an early roadway leading up Wopsy Lookout Road (Wopsononock…
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Shooting Tournament On Wopsy, 1894
The Fourth Annual Tournament of the Pennsylvania State Sportsmen’s Association commenced at…
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Shoveling Snow for the Wopsononock Railroad
This photograph was in the album of a local resident, location unknown.…
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The First Train to Wopsononock
After months of planning and construction, the narrow-gauge Altoona & Wopsononock Railroad…
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When Was the Hotel Established?
When I began researching the Wopsononock Resort & Railroad in the late…
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When Wopsononock Was a Summer Resort, James Shafer, 1959
James Shafer, a longtime Altoona Mirror photographer with a deep personal interest…
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Wopsononock 1912 Rebirth
The Wopsononock Hotel, opened in July of 1889, enjoyed only a brief…
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Wopsononock Exotic Animals
During the life of the Wopsononock railroad and resort, various animals were…
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Wopsononock Hotel & Narrow-gauge Train, Circa 1891-1903
Shown here is a Real Photo Postcard image of the Wopsononock Hotel…
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Wopsononock Hotel Artifacts
The author’s family lived in a rented house on top of Wopsy…
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Wopsononock Hotel Telephone Service
As early as 1880, the Altoona Telephone Company had extended its wires…
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Wopsononock Hotel, Front View
A rare historic photograph showing the grand front façade of the Wopsononock…
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Wopsononock Picnic Grounds, Circa 1898
The owners of the Wopsononock Resort added new picnic grounds, located directly…
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Wopsononock Post Office
The Wopsononock post office was originally established as Stains, in Cambria County,…
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Wopsononock Resort and Train Postcards, Circa 1907-1916
The Golden Age of Postcards was roughly from 1907 to 1915, a…
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Wopsy Dance Pavilion, circa 1912
In a May 8, 1912 article in the Altoona Tribune, plans were…
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Wopsy Hotel Burns Down, 1903
In late April 1903, forest fires raged at several locations on Wopsononock…
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Wopsy Lookout Tower Photos
These three images show the Wopsononock Lookout Tower as it once stood…
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Wopsy Observation Tower at Point Lookout
The Wopsononock Lookout Tower was constructed sometime during the summer of 1892.…
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Wopsy Railroad Locomotive Photos from the Smithsonian
My research into the history of the Wopsononock Resort and Railroad began…
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Wopsy Railroad Locomotives From Later Years
Locomotives purchased when the railroad was narrow-gauge were never heavy enough for…
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Wopsy Railroad Timeline
The Altoona & Wopsononock Railroad trestle at Sandy Gap. The narrow-gauge Wopsy…
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Wreck At Butcher Knife Point
“Wreck on the Wopsy” An article from Altoona Tribune, December 13, 1896…
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Wrecks on the Wopsononock Line
Along with the wreck at Butcher’s Point in 1896, other wrecks plagued…