Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1915 — A A. Pancake Early Engineer. [ARTICLE]

A A. Pancake Early Engineer.

Alfred’ A. Pancake of Harrisburg, who has completed his eighty-sixth year, took the first locomotive from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh, crossing the mountains by ten inclined planes, and from Johnstown to Pittsburgh on a canal boat. He was ttfe first engineer to run the first train from Pittsburgh to Altoona through the Gallitzin tunnel. —Philadelphia Record.