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At Hollidaysburg, the 127-mile Juniata Division of the Pennsylvania Canal met the Allegheny Portage Railroad, which extended 36 miles west over the mountain to Johnstown. The Juniata Division opened in 1832, and the railroad opened in March 1834. Regarded as an engineering marvel, the railroad climbed 1398 feet in ten miles.
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