This rare view shows a beutiful, straight-stacked, "D-16," class 4-4-0 type locomotive trailing two wooden, open-platformed coaches on the D. & L., at Barneston in Chester County. The station was named for Oliver Barnes, the engineer who surveyed the line. This photo from the early 1900's has a certain quality of remoteness which seems to give credence to such knicknames as "the darke and lonely," or "the desolate and lonesome," which were given to the Pennsy's Downingtown and Lancaster branch.
Provenance
From box labeled Manuscript Photos PRR, C & PD Br., New Holland Br. (D & L), Lanc. & Quarryville
