Discovered at a local "Flea Market," was this signed photo by Robert Dudley Moore, a commercial railroad photographer. It shows P. R. R., K-5, No. 5698 heading an eastbound passenger train on the four track main line thru Gap before the era of electrification. The historical Gap clock tower is on the upper right. Photo, Robert Dudley Moore, Philadelphia.
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.
The P. & R.'s through freight from Reading to Lancaster came to grief on April 21, 1896 when it collided with a run-away box car just north of Manheim. The Reading's Number 1093 was thrown on its side killing the front breakman. Possibly a budding railroadiana collector, the lad closest to the locomotive may have been considering the prudency of making off with the locomotive's bell bu the locomotive was reassembled and operated until 1920.
A Philadelphia & Reading box car stands on the "house track," in this old view of the station maintained by both the Reading and the Cornwall at Mt. Hope, where the two lines connected. Photo, Henry Westenberger, Lebanon, Pa.
