The wooden, open-platform passenger equipment of the Philadelphia & Reading form a background for this view of Ephrata's "Mountain Springs Rifles." the destination of the local militia group is not known, but possibly it was summer training at the military reserveation at Moutn Gretna, Pennsylvania. Photo, Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley, Ephrata, Pa.
The old Toledo & Ohio Central was still a corporate entity when this scene was made of loading Lancaster County's "cash crop," tobacco at the Reading & Columbia's freight platform in Ephrata. In the right background is what appears to be the battery operated street car of the Ephrata & Lebanon Street Railway. Photo, Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley, Ephrata, Pa.
