Photograph- Manor Township High School 50th reunion of the class of 1928. Photo taken by Esther Kilheffer. Identified, left to right, are Nelson Wallick, D. L. Biemsderfer, J. Harry Pickle and A. Norman Ranck.
Photograph- Manor Township High School 50th reunion of the class of 1928. Photo taken by Esther Kilheffer. Identified, left to right, are Nelson Wallick, D. L. Biemsderfer, J. Harry Pickle and A. Norman Ranck.
Description
Manor Township High School 50th reunion of the class of 1928. Photo taken by Esther Kilheffer. Identified, left to right, are Nelson Wallick, D. L. Biemsderfer, J. Harry Pickle and A. Norman Ranck.
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 appearance of the fresh stone ballast suggests that it was not too long after the opening of the Atglen & Susquehanna branch in 1906, when this photo was made of an eastbound freight approaching the water station and "CO" tower on the Pennsy's "Low Grade," freight line at Creswell. The Susquehanna is in the left back-ground and the tracks of the Columbia & Port Deposit branch are at the far right.
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 Pennsylvania's diesel electric number 4638 running as train number 5011 pauses at the Washington Borough station in the early 1930's to pick up a few passengers during its hour and fifty minute run along the Susquehanna from Columbia to Perryville, Maryland. The trailing coach at the rear had a section which accomodated a mail clerk and the "Columbia & Perryville R. P. O.," one of the several local mail runs in Lancaster County.
