The Reading Railroad and the Cornwall Railroad shared motive power on the "Joint Line," bewteen Lancaster and Lebanon. In this beautiful study of Victorian era railroading from the collection of James Tshudy, the conductor rides the pilot beam of the Cornwall's stately 4-4-0, the "Penryn," as it heads up Lancaster's Water Street after leaving the Reading's King Street station at the old Stevens House. It was a winter day in 1896 and more snow lay ahead in the hills around Mount Hope. Photo, James A. Tshudy, Ephrata, Pa.
This rare view shows a beutiful, straight-stacked, "D-16," class 4-4-0 type locomotive trailing two wooden, open-platformed coaches on the D. & L., at Barneston in Chester County. The station was named for Oliver Barnes, the engineer who surveyed the line. This photo from the early 1900's has a certain quality of remoteness which seems to give credence to such knicknames as "the darke and lonely," or "the desolate and lonesome," which were given to the Pennsy's Downingtown and Lancaster branch.
Provenance
From box labeled Manuscript Photos PRR, C & PD Br., New Holland Br. (D & L), Lanc. & Quarryville
