A rail-fan trip was operated in May 1955 from Philadelphia to Gettysburg over the Pennsylvania and Western Maryland via York. Pennsylvania's K-4, No. 7133 heads up the special near the Centerville Road crossing on the Columbia branch west of Rohrerstown.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
The Pennsylvania's four tracked main line was platformed on both sides in this early view card showing the way station at Kinzer decked out in the usual striped awnings for the summer season. the Kinzer hotel with its columned portico welcomed traveling salsemen. A nearby livery stable a kind of "Hertz" of its day offered horse and carriages for salesmen to call on their country prospects.
Landisville's "Railroad House," was in such close proximity to the Pennsylvania's main line tracks that legend has it that the draft from passing non-stop expresses could blow soup from plates in the dining room. Also in this 1909 view is "NV" block station which controlled the cross over of the Pennsylvania's tracks with that of the Reading & Columbia branch of the Reading. The block station in later years was changed from "NV"to "LANDIS" before it was eventually demolished.