CAMBRIA  COUNTY

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EXISTING STATIONS
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad 		Current
Location		 Type Current
Use		 Date
Built		 Track
Status		 Building
Material		 More
Info
Johnstown 47 Walnut St. P Railroad 1916 In Use Brick
Johnstown Matthew & Railroad Sts. F Business 1896 Aband. Brick  
Portage Lee Street P Museum 1926 In Use Brick  
Portage PA164 F Museum 1909 In Use Wood  
STATIONS OF THE PAST
Station
Name		 Original
Railroad		 Notes
Ashville The C&C was later part of the PRR.
Barnesboro This station was at the site of what is currently Giant Eagle. The town is now called Northern Cambria.
Beaverdale  
Ben's Creek Photos taken by Diehl Photo Studio, Portage PA.
Blandburg  
Ebensburg This station was located on South Center Street, just east of Prave Street.
Fishertown  
Gallitzin The westbound station was on Main Street where it used to cross the tracks at Railroad Street. The station was on the west side of main, on the south side of the tracks. (GPS: 40.481744,-78.552589)
Gallitzin The eastbound station was on South Main Street south of Howell Street. It was on the north side of the tracks. This may have just been a long platform of shelter rather than an enclosed station.
(GPS: 40.47715,-78.553078)
Hastings  
Johnstown  
Johnstown This freight station sat at the corner of Hynes and Bedford Streets. It was torn down in September 2005.
Johnstown According to the B&O Annual Report of 1888: "a corrugated iron freight house was erected... to replace the old freight house washed away by the flood." 
Lilly
Patton May have served the NYC branch there as well.
Patton Freight station.
Spangler Located on the Susquehanna Extension Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad.  New York Central had trackage rights from Cherry Tree down to Spangler, thence operated on its own Cambria County Railroad from Spangler to Carrolltown (the highest point on the New York Central System).
Summerhill The station was on the south side of the tracks on what is now Main Street where it runs parallel to the tracks (GPS: 40.374344,-78.760139). There was a shelter on the opposite side of the tracks.

Charles Leonard writes: "My parents bought the station and I lived in it for a number of years! I can recall that during the war years a flatbed coal car jumped the tracks and it was leaning against the porch of the house and my mother and I used garden rakes to scrape the coal off the top of the car so that we would have fuel for the kitchen stove. My parents eventually tore the station down and built a new house out of the salvaged lumber and other materials. I can remember hauling boards and the like in my wagon and then removing and straighting the old nails so that we could reuse them."
Vintondale The Ebensburg & Cresson RR was later part of the PRR.
1895 CAMBRIA COUNTY RAILROAD MAP
Notes About Existing Stations...

Johnstown (PRR) - Dedication ceremony was held October 12, 1916. Architect was Kenneth Murchison of New York and station was built by W.H. Fissell & Co. This was the second PRR station. The earlier PRR station was located at the corner of Iron and Station Streets.