Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway
| Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway | |
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Pennsylvania |
| Counties | Adams, Cumberland |
| Established | 1891 |
 1885 map of railroad tracks that in 1891 would become the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway and, to the Pine Grove Iron Works, the Hunter's Run and Slate Belt Railroad.
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 1913 reunion crowd at P & R station
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2009 “Pioneer Lines” station
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The Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway was a Pennsylvania line from near Carlisle southward to Gettysburg operated by a subsidiary of the Reading Company. The line also included the Round Top Branch over the Gettysburg Battlefield to Round Top, Pennsylvania until c. 1942.
1893: "Philadelphia and Reading station"[1]
1909: "Philadelphia Railroad Station”[2]
1914: “Reading railroad station”[3]
1919: “Philadelphia and Reading railroad station”[4]
1935: "Reading station"[5]
The Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway was formed when the "Reading Railroad" took control of the South Mountain Railroad and on May 22, 1891, the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad (the G & H RR superintendent, W. H. Woodward, was retained). On May 18, 1897, on the north side of the railroad’s station at Gettysburg, the "Reading Railway" had finished another siding across Washington St. By 1904, the Gettysburg yards had 5 sidings, including 3 over Washington St and 1 toward Pennsylvania College's 1889 Glatfelter Hall. Attached to the Washington St siding south of the station was the sole westward siding to the turntable and the roundhouse, which was on the northeast corner of the crossing. The crossing was the site of a 1909 Reading and Western Maryland collision of freight trains.
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