A cut shown above from an 1895 railroad map gives the approximate location of the smaller railroad states on the Lykens Valley Railroad.
Other than the main railroad stations on the Lykens Valley Railroad at Lykens, Elizabethville, and Millersburg (Lenkerville), there were at least three other smaller stations en route. According to information found in the Interstate Commerce Commission files, these stations had small railroad buildings.
None of these buildings have survived to the present, but the exact location of the Oakdale, Lenkers and Woodside buildings has been determined as follows:
A Google search for Woodside in Dauphin County produced the following result: Roadside Thoughts. Also: Dauphin County Railroad Stations. “This depot was on the east side of Woodside Station Road on the south side of the tracks at approximately GPS: 40.532202, -76.910003.”
A Google search for Lenkers in Dauphin County produced the following result for “Lenker”: Dauphin County Railroad Stations. “This station was on the east side of Lenker Station/Mohr Road on the south side of the tracks at approximately GPS: 40.537569, -76.864172.”
The Oakdale Station, according to the Dauphin County Railroad Stations site, “was on the east side of Oakdale Station Road on the north side of the tracks at approximately GPS: 40.556024, -76.759528.” The Oakdale Station stop was later re-named Loyalton.
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Originally published on The Civil War Blog on 18 April 2016.
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