Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad - stone culvert erected in 1834 at what is now intersection of U. S. Route 30 and Prospect Road, east of Columbia. Picture was taken in May 1965 a few weeks prior to its demolition before construction of Route 30
Conestoga Transportation Company car No. 53 as sepcial chartered by Lancaster Chapter National Railway Historical Society at Donerville turnout east of Mountville.
Provenance
From folder labeled "C. T. Co. Columbia - Lancaster Line"
Columbia trolley No. 67 photographed at Kehler's School "turnout", along Columbia Pike east of Columbia just about opposite present Failla's Restaurant. Motorman Harvey Bixler. Mr. Bixler ran the first bus to Columbia and was a well known bus driver on the Columbia run.
Provenance
From folder labeled "C. T. Co. Columbia - Lancaster Line"
The driver of P. R. Shellenberger's grocery wagon steadies his horse until things settle down as the Reading's Columbia bound passenger train disappears in the distance. The signals and the structure indicate that the station of Bruckharts in rural West Hempfield Township in that distand time had an agent or a signal operator who might well have been the woman in the long skirt.
A few minutes out of Columbia on a bleak November afternoon in 1940, Reading's No. 1642 with a Reading bound freight hits the crossing at Heise's Woods as it blasts up grade on a reverse curve ascending Chestnut Hill. In an earlier day, the Reading & Columbia had a picnic ground in the "woods," and ran picnic excursions one of which was for veterans just after close of the Civil War.