Scene at Pennsylvania Railroad station at Columbia, Front and Walnut Streets, about 1910. Shows two Conestoga Traction Company open cars, and one closed car; the "Columbia Belt" car. Other oopen car is the Marietta line car. Closed ca in rear is the Lancaster car.
Photograph- Pennsylvania Railroad station. President Theodore Roosevelt's special train stop at Lancaster in 1912. Roosevelt is standing on rear platform.
Photograph- Pennsylvania Railroad station. President Theodore Roosevelt's special train stop at Lancaster in 1912. Roosevelt is standing on rear platform.
Description
Pennsylvania Railroad station. President Theodore Roosevelt's special train stop at Lancaster in 1912. Roosevelt is standing on rear platform.
Photograph- Last train over the Quarryvile branch of the Narrow Gauge Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway which ran in southern Lancaster County. Photo taken at the Quarryville Railroad Station. Railway also called the Little, Old and Slow.
Photograph- Last train over the Quarryvile branch of the Narrow Gauge Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway which ran in southern Lancaster County. Photo taken at the Quarryville Railroad Station. Railway also called the Little, Old and Slow.
Description
Last train over the Quarryvile branch of the Narrow Gauge Lancaster, Oxford and Southern Railway which ran in southern Lancaster County. Photo taken at the Quarryville Railroad Station. Railway also called the Little, Old and Slow.
The last train to leave Quarryville, 1917, thus ending an expensive and money losing branch line operation. There was never any freight to speak of and passengers couldn't make the line pay.
Provenance
This album is a compilation of research done by Thomas T. Taber of Muncy, PA, in 2006. It includes information about Strasburg; the Lancaster, Oxford and Southern; Peach Bottom; and mining railroads near Marticville.
The Dorsey engine house in 1912. No equipment was kept at Peach Bottom. The locomotive always ran back to Dorsey for the night.
Provenance
This album is a compilation of research done by Thomas T. Taber of Muncy, PA, in 2006. It includes information about Strasburg; the Lancaster, Oxford and Southern; Peach Bottom; and mining railroads near Marticville.
This album is a compilation of research done by Thomas T. Taber of Muncy, PA, in 2006. It includes information about Strasburg; the Lancaster, Oxford and Southern; Peach Bottom; and mining railroads near Marticville.
