This early view card dates from the era when Manheim, PA boasted a fringed depot hack that met all trains. Passengers gather trackside as a Reading bound train steams into town. The shirt sleeved hack driver awaits to convey potential hotel guests to the "Summy House" or to Manheim's "Washington House."
The last Cornwall Railroad passenger run stands in front of the Reading's Manheim station on January 23, 1929. The Cornwall's old No. 2, originally named, "Castle Fin," pulled the final train from Manheim to Lebanon.
A by-stander confers with the engineer of Cornwall No. 2 just before the last train pulled out of Manheim over the "Joint Line," to Lebanon on January 23, 1929.
A formal portrait of the combination freight and passenger station at Manheim which served both the Reading and Columbia as well as the Cornwall Railroad. Built in 1882, it remained an agency station until 1976. The structure is still standing in 1983. Photo, Edward Lewis, Morrisville, Vt.
Lititz Springs Park was the destinatin for many a Reading & Columbia picnic train over the years. A Reading railfan group ran a trip from Reading to Columbia in June of 1948 using a gas electric car and trailer. The special made a "picture stop," at the Lititz station.
