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词条 Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway
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  1. History

     Subsequent companies 

  2. References

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The Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway was a Pennsylvania line from near Carlisle southward to Gettysburg operated by a [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9I8zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=V-EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4603,1720417&dq=gettysburg-and-harrisburg&hl=en subsidiary] of the Reading Company. The line also included the Round Top Branch over the Gettysburg Battlefield to Round Top, Pennsylvania until {{circa|1942}}.

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|quote=1893: "Philadelphia and Reading station"[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1893/07/03/109724482.pdf]


1909: "Philadelphia Railroad Station”[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-aolAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OPwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6550,532837&dq=railroad-station+gettysburg&hl=en]
1914: “Reading railroad station”[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DThUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YjoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=6904,3708640&dq=reading-railroad-station+gettysburg&hl=en]
1919: “Philadelphia and Reading railroad station”[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MtslAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7273,2576564&dq=reading-railroad-station+gettysburg&hl=en]


1935: "Reading station"[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7cA9AAAAIBAJ&sjid=FzcMAAAAIBAJ&pg=7312,77818&dq=reading-station+gettysburg&hl=en]


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History

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).[1] 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.[2] 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[3] to the turntable and the roundhouse, which was on the northeast corner of the crossing.[4] The crossing was the site of a 1909 Reading and Western Maryland collision of freight trains.[5]

Just prior to the 1913 Gettysburg reunion, additional passing sidings on the "Gettysburg & Harrisburg branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway company" were constructed between [https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Goodyear,+PA Goodyear] and Gettysburg,[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=waRcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZlgNAAAAIBAJ&dq=hackmen%20gettysburg&pg=4474%2C180540] and a switch from Round Top Branch connected westbound onto the Western Maryland. The state health department operated reunion comfort stations at both Gettysburg depots (cf. Gettysburg Railroad Station),[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=waRcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZlgNAAAAIBAJ&dq=hackmen%20gettysburg&pg=4474%2C180540] and President Woodrow Wilson used the Round Top Branch to depart the Great Camp on his special train.[6] Similarly, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's southbound train passed the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and stopped at a special station from where he motored to Oak Hill to dedicate the memorial during the 1938 Gettysburg reunion. In 1924, the land for the Idaville station was sold.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=28slAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1_kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4739,1861421&dq=reading-railroad-station+gettysburg&hl=en]

One of the railroad’s last excursion trains was a May 7, 1939, Reading Railroad train with 400 from Philadelphia over the Round Top Branch.[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tCMmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A_0FAAAAIBAJ&dq=deacon-dubbs%201939&pg=5128%2C3340232] Except for special occasions, e.g., Bethlehem students in 1958,[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3VYmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h_8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=5368,3736477&dq=reading-railroad+gettysburg+1940&hl=en] Reading passenger service to Gettysburg ceased in 1941;  and a 1942 application was made to abandon nearly the entire Round Top Branch.[7] The station was repainted in 1946,[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=klJUAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QzoNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5552,6071275&dq=reading-railroad-station+gettysburg&hl=en] and the turntable and 3-engine[8] roundhouse[9] had been removed before 1970.{{Specify|more specific date needed|date=May 2011}} The Gettysburg spur south of the east-west Western Maryland RR crossing and that had been part of the Round Top Branch remained until at least 1962.[10]

Subsequent companies

The Reading Company filed for bankruptcy in 1971 and the railway line was owned by Conrail in 1976 from April 1-October.[11] The line was purchased by the Blairsville & Indiana Railroad which changed its name to [12] Gettysburg Railroad (1976–1996) and used the line for freight and, under its Gettysburg Passenger Services subsidiary, tourist excursions. (In the mid 1990s the line's junction at Gettysburg was moved west to Seminary Ridge.) In 1996 the line was purchased by the RailAmerica subsidiary, Delaware Valley Railroad Company, which created a new operating company,[13] Gettysburg Railway, that included Gettysburg Scenic Rail Tours.[14] The line was sold October 1997 to John H. Marino,[14] who operated the line until 2001. The station was purchased by Gettysburg College (which requested restoration funds in 1999)[15] and was used by the Pioneer Lines Scenic Railway for diesel excursions on the line by 2007.[16]

The remaining G. & H. tracks are part of the {{Convert|25|mi|km|abbr=on}} Gettysburg & Northern Railroad which transports ”canned goods, pulpboard, soda ash, grain, and scrap paper” and connects via 6 stations to the Norfolk Southern Railway at Mount Holly Springs and CSX Transportation at Gettysburg.[https://web.archive.org/web/20101218235951/http://www.pioneer-railcorp.com/Subsidiaries/GET/get.html]

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|image1=[https://books.google.com/books?id=WMpYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA54-IA1 1913 reunion crowd at P & R station ]
|image2=2009 “Pioneer Lines” station
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References

1. ^{{Cite news |date=May 22, 1891 |title=Reading Acquires A Road |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0C14F73D5E10738DDDAA0A94DD405B8185F0D3 |newspaper=The New York Times |accessdate=2011-05-12}} ([https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Cs9VAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vUANAAAAIBAJ&pg=6986,4340920&dq=gettysburg-and-harrisburg&hl=en larger article in The Philadelphia Record)]
2. ^{{Cite news |date=May 18, 1897 |title=Local Miscellany |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yV0mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j_8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6437,3872128&dq=foreman+coulson+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=The Star and Sentinel |accessdate=2011-07-17}}
3. ^{{Cite map |publisher=Julius Bien & Co. Lith. |year=1904 |title=Map of the Battle Field of Gettysburg |cartography=Gettysburg National Park Commission (Nicholson, John P; Cope, Emmor; Hammond, Schuyler A) |location=New York |accessdate=2011-01-19}}
4. ^{{Cite news |date=December 19, 1883 |title=Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0XcmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GgAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=2942%2C7726966 |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-05-12 |quote=The round-house lot is being graded and the surplus earth hauled across the "Tapeworm" on[to] the Mumper lot, thus making a commencement for the Round-Top branch.}}
5. ^{{Cite news |date=May 10, 1892 |title=Collision |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MP0yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jAAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1375%2C348016 |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Compiler |accessdate=2011-07-17 |quote=Improvements.--The two buildings adjoining the W. M. R. R. depot have been joined and fixed up to form an office of Mr. S. J. Diller's livery.}}
6. ^{{Cite report |last=Beitler |first=Lewis Eugene (editor and compiler) |date=December 31, 1913 |title=Fiftieth Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg: Report of the Pennsylvania Commission |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=swkTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA168 |format=Google Books |location=Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |publisher=Wm. Stanley Bay |page=176b |accessdate=2011-05-11}}
7. ^{{Cite news |date=February 2, 1942 |title=Seek To Abandon Round Top Branch |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=udclAAAAIBAJ&sjid=PfwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6348%2C4558138 |quote=
extending from a point 1,670 feet south of the point where it crosses the Lincoln Highway on Buford avenue to the end of the branch a distance of about 2.492 miles}}
8. ^{{Cite news |date=April 30, 1958 |title=Railroaders Tell About "Early Days"|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8WYmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ev8FAAAAIBAJ&dq=round-top-branch&pg=3169%2C77538 |format=Google News Archives |newspaper=Gettysburg Times |accessdate=2011-05-12 |quote=
The G and H had a three-engine round house in the yards}}
9. ^{{Cite news |date=April 30, 1969 |title=Dan Skelly |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=XD0mAAAAIBAJ&sjid=w_4FAAAAIBAJ&pg=3145,121429&dq=roundhouse+skelly+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archives |newspaper=Gettysburg Times |accessdate=2011-05-12 |quote=
Just off Buford Ave. in the vicinity of [the 1896] [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mdIlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J_0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=6803,413403&dq=meade-school+railroad+gettysburg&hl=en Meade School], the Round House of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway was located … we all made friends with the train crews and the {{sic|hustlers}} at the Round House. … Adjacent to the Round House, in the vicinity of the [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YXQlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zfIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6886,4102034&dq=gettysburg+miniature-golf&hl=en present miniature golf course], was perhaps the [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MtslAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZvwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7273,2576564&dq=reading-railroad-station+gettysburg&hl=en most popular of the sandlot ball diamonds.]}}
10. ^{{cite map |date=May 20, 1962 |title=Historic and Other Important Landmarks |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hbolAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2_IFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5083,2208678&dq=tower+round-top&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |work=Visitor's Supplement (p. 22) |publisher=Gettysburg Times |accessdate=2010-02-21}}
11. ^{{Cite news |last=Diblasi |first=Nancy |title=Excursion Puffs Its Way To Mount Holly Springs |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lJQzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HOkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4073,4570428&dq=hunter's-run+station+holly&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Times |accessdate=2011-05-11}}
12. ^{{cite book |title=American Short Line Railway Guide |last=Lewis |first=Edward A. |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1996 |publisher=Kalmbach |location=Milwaukee, WI |isbn=0-89024-290-9 |page=134 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=kav09ZpkS6YC&lpg=PP1&dq=american%20shortline%20railway%20guide&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false|edition=5th |accessdate=}}
13. ^U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. "Report Form 10-K: RailAmerica, Inc.," for the year ending 1996.
14. ^STB Finance Docket No. 33505, November 21, 1997
15. ^{{Cite news |date=January 21, 1999 |title=Park |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=sRAmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qf0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1454,1547694&dq=reading-railroad-station+gettysburg&hl=en |format=Google News Archive |newspaper=Gettysburg Times |accessdate=2011-07-17}}
16. ^{{Cite web |title=Pioneer Lines Scenic Railway |url=http://gettysburgrail.aurora-e-solutions.com/ |publisher=Auroroa-e-solutions.com |accessdate=2011-07-17}}

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