Book Review: Rockville Bridge: Rails Across the Susquehanna
Dan Cupper, Rockville Bridge: Rails Across The Susquehanna (Halifax, Pa.: Withers Publishing, 2002) 112pp., illustrated (some col.), maps, plans, $29.95.
Hey Ollie, Let's Go Railroading
Reproduced below are a number of the photographs which were displayed at the Cumberland County Historical Society as an exhibit "Hey Ollie, Let's Go Railroading." Over 250 photographs were put on display as a tribute to all the railroaders, both here and gone, who worked in the Cumberland Valley.
Featured in the photographs are six lines.
1. The Reading Company's Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Branch.
2. The Pennsylvania Railroad's Cumberland Valley Branch, extending from Harrisburg to Shippensburg. It has been abandoned from a point west of Carlisle to Shippensburg. The remaining segment is Conrail's Shippensburg Secondary Track.
3. The Pennsylvania Railroad's Dillsburg Secondary Track, extending from a point west of Mechanicsburg to Dillsburg in York County. This line has been abandoned.
4. The Pennsylvania Railroad's Northern Central Branch, extending from Harrisburg (Lemoyne) southward into York County. This line has been abandoned.
5. The Pennsylvania Railroad's Low Grade Line, extending between Enola Yard in East Pennsboro Township along the Susquehanna River into York County. It is currently Conrail's Enola Branch.
6. The Reading Company's Gettysburg and Harrisburg Branch, extending between Carlisle and Gettysburg. The portion between Carlisle and Carlisle Junction, in South Middleton Township near Mt. Holly Springs, was abandoned following Hurricane Agnes in June 1972. The remaining portion to Gettysburg is operated by the Gettysburg Railroad.