Attempted Train Wreck Near Woodside Station, 1928
A quick-reacting engineer brought a morning passenger train to a halt on April 1928 near Woodside Station on the Lykens Valley Railroad, just barely averting the derailment of the locomotive […]
Millersburg – Early Aviation at Robinson Field (2)
A photograph said to have been taken on Easter Sunday (year not identified) at Robinson Field, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo is from a scrapbook in which the following […]
Williamstown – Market Street Scene (1)
An undated post card view of Market Street, Williamstown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Note the trolley, track and overhead wire. _____________________________________________________ Corrections and additional information should be added as comments to […]
Millersburg – Early Aviation at Robinson Field
An undated photograph of three bi-planes parked outside a hangar at Robinson Field, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This field was dedicated in 1930, so this photo could have been taken […]
Pennsylvania Railroad Excursion – Herndon Camp Meeting, 1910
An advertisement appearing the Elizabethville Echo, July 28, 1910, for a special excursion ticket to the United Evangelical Camp Meeting at Herndon, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. The camp meting took place […]
Millersburg – U. S. Navy Planes at Robinson Field
An undated photograph said to be be a group of U. S. Navy bi-planes parked at Robinson Field, Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo was probably from the 1930s and […]
Reading Railroad Service to Philadelphia, 1910
New Time Tables for the Philadelphia and Reading Railway’s “Improved Passenger Train Service to Philadelphia via Schuylkill Haven Short Line” were published in the Elizabethville Echo, July 28, 1910. During […]
Pennsylvania Railroad Excursions to Niagara Falls, 1910
A newspaper advertisement for “personally conducted excursions” to Niagara Falls, via the Pennsylvania Railroad, on five dates in 1910. The ad appeared in the Elizabethville Echo, July 28, 1910, and […]