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.
The Pennsylvania's agency station on the main line at Leaman Place about 1910. The over pass in the distance carries what was later to become highway route 30. The loading shelter on the left served eastbound trains as well as those of the Strasburg Rail Road.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
The Pennsylvania's main line station at Leaman Place is shown in this post card view produced in the early 1900's. the hotel and livery stable at the rear dates back to the days of the Philadelphia & Columbia Rail Road and the track in the right foreground is that of the Str asburg Rail Road years before it was a tourist attraction.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
This beautiful old view from the Tschudy collection shows the Pennsylvania's main line going from two to four tracks east of the bridge over the Conestoga at Lancaster. The track going off to the left beyond the tower is that of the D. & L., branch to New Holland and the over pass in the distance carried what is now Pitney Road. Photo, James A. Tschudy, Ephrata, Pa.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
This photo dating back to the 1890's was made fromt eh Duke Street over pass looking west showing the Lancaster station with its arched train shed that spanned the two passenger tracks from Queen to Christian Street. Photo, Jack W. W. Loose, Lancaster, Pa.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
Old P. R. R. Queen St. Station looking west from Duke Street bridge - April 24, 1929, 3 days before station was closed on April 27, 1929 and trains commenced using station north of Liberty Street.
The Old Lancaster Station - Until it was preplaced in 1929 with a a new station on the northern part of the city, the Pennsy's passenger depot dominated lancaster's down town intersection of North Queen and Chestnut Street. The building itself took on a macabre roll in 1865 when it became an improptu morgue for the victims of the wreck of the "Day Express," at Kauffman's Mill east of Landisville in October of that year. Richard Reinhold, photo.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
Landmark Being Removed - Much of the atmosphere of down town Lancaster on a shirt sleeve summer day as workmen, in this scene began demolishing, after its closure on 1929, the old Pennsylvania station at North Queen and Chestnut Street. A Conestoga Traction trolley heads up North Queen Street and Harry Todd was still running the Railroad Cafe, but the trains would pass its doors no more. Richard Reinhold, photo.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
Looking east from the Lancaster station in 1932 showing a westbound Pennsy express slowing for the station stop. The over pass carrying Lititz Pike is in the background. Photo, John Bowman, Jr., Lancaster, Pa.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
Decades before there was a Route 30 By-Pass and a Park City Shopping Center, the Chicago bound "Broadway Limited," headed by P. R. R. 4-6-2 type No. 5436, is shown in this 1936 view passing Long Park west of Lancaster. Photo, John Bowman, Jr., Lancaster, Pa.
Provenance
From box labeled Pennsylvania RR Main Line, Columbia Br., A & S Br.
