Page 16: "Looking south from Benton Station, Monday October 26, 1903"; "Road to Kato's house (colored musician)"; "Along Glen Benton, October 16, 1903, Mr. Jones, Harrisburg (to right), one of club members"; "Caesar's Glen, October 16, 1903"; "A man wanted this rock for his tombstone, October 16, 1903"; "Mouth of Glen Benton, October 16, 1903".
Provenance
Second of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, beginning in 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
Pennsylvania Traction Company car no. 63 on Marietta line at what was known as the "Red Barn" just below Marietta in 1896. This car was one of the original Columbia and Ironville Electric Railway cars. Note the odd looking home made vestibules, which were constructed in the Columbia carbarn to protect the motorman from the weather. Car painted red with yellow lettering. Built by J. G. Brill Car Company.
Trolley trestle over Chiques Creek on the Marietta line shows where car of the Conestoga Traction Company in the middle of the trestle. Pciture also shows the Chiques branch of the Reading Railroad. Pciture taken about 1907. Trestle 950 feet in length, 32 feet in height.
Conestoga Traction Company car no. 217, "Columbia Belt". Peter Maurer, motorman. Front and Walnut Streets, Columbia, May 1932, a few days before abandonment.
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.
