When this view was made of the "Low Grade," line looking south at Marietta in the 1920's, the Pennsy's passenger line that abutted Marietta's Front Street was similarly double-tracked.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
From the vantage point of the top of Chickies Rock, a steam powered freight is caught headed southward over the "Low Grade". The lower end of Marietta is in the distance. Courtesy John D. Kendig, Manheim, Pa.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
This view shows the Atglen & Susquehanna branch tracks in the process of relocation prior to electrification through Columbia in 1938. Scene is looking north fromLocust Street. "LG-42" tower is in the distance.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
A parlor car brings up the rear in this 1908 view of a Philadelphia bound train making a station stop on the P. R. R., main line at Christiana on the eastern edge of Lancaster County. In the distance, the tracks swing eastward toward Atglen.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
Six years before main line electrification, the engineer of a westbound Pennsy locomotive, in this 1932 view, has dropped the waer scoop and is taking water from the track tanks located east of Christiana. Photo, John Bowman, Jr., Lancaster.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
The Pennsylvania's agency station on the main line at Leaman Place about 1910. The over pass in the distance carries what was later to become highway route 30. The loading shelter on the left served eastbound trains as well as those of the Strasburg Rail Road.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
The Pennsylvania's main line station at Leaman Place is shown in this post card view produced in the early 1900's. the hotel and livery stable at the rear dates back to the days of the Philadelphia & Columbia Rail Road and the track in the right foreground is that of the Str asburg Rail Road years before it was a tourist attraction.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
This beautiful old view from the Tschudy collection shows the Pennsylvania's main line going from two to four tracks east of the bridge over the Conestoga at Lancaster. The track going off to the left beyond the tower is that of the D. & L., branch to New Holland and the over pass in the distance carried what is now Pitney Road. Photo, James A. Tschudy, Ephrata, Pa.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
This photo dating back to the 1890's was made fromt eh Duke Street over pass looking west showing the Lancaster station with its arched train shed that spanned the two passenger tracks from Queen to Christian Street. Photo, Jack W. W. Loose, Lancaster, Pa.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
Old P. R. R. Queen St. Station looking west from Duke Street bridge - April 24, 1929, 3 days before station was closed on April 27, 1929 and trains commenced using station north of Liberty Street.
The Old Lancaster Station - Until it was preplaced in 1929 with a a new station on the northern part of the city, the Pennsy's passenger depot dominated lancaster's down town intersection of North Queen and Chestnut Street. The building itself took on a macabre roll in 1865 when it became an improptu morgue for the victims of the wreck of the "Day Express," at Kauffman's Mill east of Landisville in October of that year. Richard Reinhold, photo.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
Landmark Being Removed - Much of the atmosphere of down town Lancaster on a shirt sleeve summer day as workmen, in this scene began demolishing, after its closure on 1929, the old Pennsylvania station at North Queen and Chestnut Street. A Conestoga Traction trolley heads up North Queen Street and Harry Todd was still running the Railroad Cafe, but the trains would pass its doors no more. Richard Reinhold, photo.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
Looking east from the Lancaster station in 1932 showing a westbound Pennsy express slowing for the station stop. The over pass carrying Lititz Pike is in the background. Photo, John Bowman, Jr., Lancaster, Pa.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
Decades before there was a Route 30 By-Pass and a Park City Shopping Center, the Chicago bound "Broadway Limited," headed by P. R. R. 4-6-2 type No. 5436, is shown in this 1936 view passing Long Park west of Lancaster. Photo, John Bowman, Jr., Lancaster, Pa.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
The Pennsylvania Railroad erected this ornate station in Mount Joy in the 1870's when the main line still passed thru the north side of the community. When the "cut," was put thru the south side of Mount Joy in 1896, a new station was erected. However, the old station on North Market Street, along rails that were once the harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mount Joy & Lancaster Railroad, was still Standing up until the 1930's. Photo, Ralph Snyder, R. D. #2, Mount Joy, Pa.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
At a little after two on a warm July Afternoon in 1957, the author's camera recorded the Pennsylvania's train thrity two, the east bound "St Louisan," pulled by one of the famous GG-1 electrics, while stopped at the Lancaster station. The well known train offered bedroom and roomette sleeping cars as well as lounge car and dining service between St. Louis and New York.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
The "Cut," appears new and it was still the wooden coach era in this view of a "Pennsy," flyer heading west thru Mount Joy. The Barbara Street overpass is in the background. Photo, Ralph Snyder, R. D. #2, Mount Joy, Pa.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
While waiting for an eastbound local train at Mount Joy, it was an experience never to be forgotten, to be "caught," in the rather open waiting shelter as a non-stop express dashed thru the "cut," little more than an arm's length away.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
Although damaged by time, this view card shows the Pennsylvania main line at Rheems, Penna., about 1906. The station is on the left, Rheems tower in the middle distance and on the right, a caboose hop has pulled into the clear with sufficient time for the crew and other locals to pose for the photographer.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
The appearance of the fresh stone ballast suggests that it was not too long after the opening of the Atglen & Susquehanna branch in 1906, when this photo was made of an eastbound freight approaching the water station and "CO" tower on the Pennsy's "Low Grade," freight line at Creswell. The Susquehanna is in the left back-ground and the tracks of the Columbia & Port Deposit branch are at the far right.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
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.
