Standing: A. B. Hassler. Seated from left to right: Major General Stanton, Walter Herr, and J. W. Brown. Standing outside a camp tent. Digital image only.
Caught on the bridge with two trains passing! A group of intrepid individuals cling to the guard rails of the massive steel bridge that carries the Atglen & Susquehanna freight line over the Conestoga Creek where it breaks through the river hills and into the Susquehanna River. This winter scene from the 1920's before the erection of Safe Harbor Dam shows the great bridge and the tracks of the Columbia & Port Deposit branch far below.
Rugged hills dropping abrubtly to river level and the commanding expanse of the Susquehanna made the ride over the "Port Road," one of the most beautiful rail trips in the state and some even compared the scenery to that along the Rhine. A July 1949 steam powered fan trip out of Philadelphia waits while passengers take in a tour of the Safe Harbor Dam.
The massive steel supports of the Atglen & Susquehanna Branch's imposing bridge at Safe Harbor, PA forma back drop for the Pennsy's classic GG-1 class electric No. 4923 during a stop of a May 1957 "Port Road" Excursion to view the dam and the scenery along the Susquehanna at Safe Harbor.
