You can imagine Ma Crachett's surprise when this fan-laden special rolled right through her front porch. Place is Glen Moore, Pa. on Pennsy's New Holland Branch. Year is 1939 and lead engine is G-5s 5713.
Joseph Baldwin Hutchinson - very rare china pitcher used on J. B. Hutchinson's private car. The piece is in the private collection of Chris Marlotte, Chambersburg, PA. It is pictured in Douglas McIntyre's "The Official Guide to Railroad Dining Car China".
When this view was made of the "Low Grade," line looking south at Marietta in the 1920's, the Pennsy's passenger line that abutted Marietta's Front Street was similarly double-tracked.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
From the vantage point of the top of Chickies Rock, a steam powered freight is caught headed southward over the "Low Grade". The lower end of Marietta is in the distance. Courtesy John D. Kendig, Manheim, Pa.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
This view shows the Atglen & Susquehanna branch tracks in the process of relocation prior to electrification through Columbia in 1938. Scene is looking north fromLocust Street. "LG-42" tower is in the distance.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
A parlor car brings up the rear in this 1908 view of a Philadelphia bound train making a station stop on the P. R. R., main line at Christiana on the eastern edge of Lancaster County. In the distance, the tracks swing eastward toward Atglen.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
Six years before main line electrification, the engineer of a westbound Pennsy locomotive, in this 1932 view, has dropped the waer scoop and is taking water from the track tanks located east of Christiana. Photo, John Bowman, Jr., Lancaster.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
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.