Photograph- Ice jam at foot of Locust Street, Columbia, near coal chutes. Written on back: "Reading Railroad shipped coal to Columbia by train then dumped it in coal chutes where it was put aboard boats and shipped to Baltimore. This is why the Reading Railroad bought the canal, later, from Pennsylvania. It was competition in the coal business."
Photograph- Ice jam at foot of Locust Street, Columbia, near coal chutes. Written on back: "Reading Railroad shipped coal to Columbia by train then dumped it in coal chutes where it was put aboard boats and shipped to Baltimore. This is why the Reading Railroad bought the canal, later, from Pennsylvania. It was competition in the coal business."
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Ice jam at foot of Locust Street, Columbia, near coal chutes. Written on back: "Reading Railroad shipped coal to Columbia by train then dumped it in coal chutes where it was put aboard boats and shipped to Baltimore. This is why the Reading Railroad bought the canal, later, from Pennsylvania. It was competition in the coal business."
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.
