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.
Photograph- Monument said to be the place where Bishop Samuel Bowman of the Protestant Episcopal Church died. Copy of pages 146-147 from a history of St. James Episcopal Church describes his death and is with photo.
Photograph- Monument said to be the place where Bishop Samuel Bowman of the Protestant Episcopal Church died. Copy of pages 146-147 from a history of St. James Episcopal Church describes his death and is with photo.
Description
Monument said to be the place where Bishop Samuel Bowman of the Protestant Episcopal Church died. Copy of pages 146-147 from a history of St. James Episcopal Church describes his death and is with photo.
Driving the last spike on the low grade freight line, possibly the Susquehanna and Atglen. First row left to right: John Strimmel, Anna Atcheson, John Hendrie, Owen Bremmer - blacksmith who made the hammer and spike, George W. Hensel Jr. - hammering last spike, Alex Hendrie, Leander T. Hensel, Samuel Bair, Ezra B. Fritz, J. R. L. Atcheson, Richard Rohrer, Jerry Regan, John Cassidy, Dean Oatman, A. S. Harkness. Second row: Benjamin Cocharan, Barney Myers, Charlie Timanus, Vernon Harkness. Remainder of the group is Italian or African American railroad laborers.
Conestoga Traction Company trolley freight car no. 313, and one end of no. 314, at freight station, North Lime Street, Lancaster, from across old Pennsylvania Railroad cut.
Provenance
Gift of Sue Radocy in memory of Harry and Esther Siegrist and Maurice and Mildred Wimer.
