The Destructive Cyclone of 1910 (1)
Part 1 of 3 posts on the Great Cyclone of June, 1910, featuring news articles from local and area newspapers. From the Elizabethville Echo, June 23, 1910: DESTRUCTIVE CYCLONE GREAT […]
Fire at Snyder Lumber Mill Near Woodside, 1928
From the Elizabethville Echo, April 26, 1928, a news story about a fire which started in a grass field near a saw mill between Woodside Station and Millersburg and spread […]
Young Man Dies in Hut Fire Near Woodside, 1928
In the early morning hours of Easter Sunday, 1928, near Woodside Station on the Lykens Valley Railroad, a young man died in a tree hut that he had constructed and […]
Some Fires In Vicinity of Woodside Station
Firefighters work to contain and extinguish a mountainside fire on the north side of Berries Mountain, near Woodside Station in 1935. This fire was one of many that occurred in […]
Railroad Memories of Woodside Station
Some stories about coal train derailments and Woodside Station, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and how the mail was delayed and passengers inconvenienced. Also stories about an engineer who […]
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 […]
Lykens Valley Railroad – Sunday Train Schedule, 1910
An announcement of the inauguration of Sunday train service on the Lykens Valley Railroad was made by the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Elizabethville Echo of November 17, 1910. The Pennsylvania […]
Woodside Station Covered Bridge
An undated photograph of the covered bridge on Woodside Station Road, Upper Paxton Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. This bridge was one of many that were destroyed in the flooding caused […]