Everett Railroad

The Everett Railroad incorporates in April 1954 to assume a segment of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Mountain Railroad and Coal Company that the company had abandoned that same month. The original line, built between 1859 and 1863 by the Bedford Railroad and merged into the H&BT in 1864, runs north from the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Mt. Dallas Branch at Mount Dallas toward Tatesville. After Conrail ends service on the Mt. Dallas Secondary in October 1982, the Everett Railroad’s original trackage is abandoned, but the company revives in May 1984 by purchasing the Bedford‑era Bedford Secondary between Brooks Mill and Sproul—a line completed in 1910 by the Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad. In mid‑1982 the Morrison’s Cove Secondary from Roaring Spring to Curryville is bought by the locally organized Morrison’s Cove Railroad; the Allegheny Southern Railway operates it from September 1982 until the end of 1984, when the Everett Railroad assumes operations on 1 January 1985, marking the longest‑running continuous freight service on that secondary. Alan W. Maples, owner of the Everett Railroad, forms the Hollidaysburg and Roaring Spring Railroad and purchases the remaining Morrison’s Cove segment from Roaring Spring through Brooks Mill to Hollidaysburg in March 1995, simultaneously acquiring trackage rights into Hollidaysburg and beginning contract operation of the new H&RS line.