Driving the last spike on the low grade freight line, possibly the Susquehanna and Atglen. First row left to right: John Strimmel, Anna Atcheson, John Hendrie, Owen Bremmer - blacksmith who made the hammer and spike, George W. Hensel Jr. - hammering last spike, Alex Hendrie, Leander T. Hensel, Samuel Bair, Ezra B. Fritz, J. R. L. Atcheson, Richard Rohrer, Jerry Regan, John Cassidy, Dean Oatman, A. S. Harkness. Second row: Benjamin Cocharan, Barney Myers, Charlie Timanus, Vernon Harkness. Remainder of the group is Italian or African American railroad laborers.
Norman Adam, second from left, Jake Humphreville, third from left, and Isaac Trimble, far right, employees of the Lancaster Gas Co., assemble on Grant Street.
John H. Pfenniger, a Lancaster Electric Light, Heat and Power Company lineman, climbs a utility pole to check electrical service for the city of Lancaster.
Extension of four inch universal pipe on Lafayette Street looking east from brow of hill to intersection at Strawberry Street showing the lay of the pipe up through a bed of rock.
Two inch extension (N. P. Pipe) off four inche intersection at Laurel and Union Streets looking west on Union toward Love Lane taking care of ten new consumers and covering all near will be here for years to come. Also showing location of drip box at Laurel and Union Streets providing for all the drainage of this end of city.
