Covered Bridge Near Woodside Station
An undated color photograph of the covered bridge over the Wiconisco Creek near Woodside Station of the Lykens Valley Railroad. This bridge was one of many that were destroyed in […]
Some Stories About the Lykens Valley Accommodation, 1929-1934
An undated view of Market Street in Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The railroad station is at far right and the tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Lykens Valley Branch cross Market […]
Lykens Valley Railroad Station at Woodside, 1916
A photograph of the Lykens Valley Railroad station at Woodside, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, taken as part of the building survey of the Interstate Commerce Commission’s survey of railroad structures and […]
Lykens Valley Railroad Station at Woodside, 1920
A slightly blurred photograph of the Woodside Station on the Lykens Valley Railroad, at Woodside, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. The photo was taken about 1920. Three men, probably workers, and the […]
Smaller Stations En Route on the Lykens Valley Railroad
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 […]
Summit Branch Railroad – “The Adams Express”
“The Adams Express” was a special passenger train that made daily runs between Williamstown and Millersburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, on the Summit Branch Railroad. From a timetable of 1875, the […]
Passenger Railroad Service at Elizabethville, 1894
The passenger railroad schedule for trains arriving and departing at Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, as printed in the Elizabethville Echo, 6 September 1894, was as follows: Six trains stopped at […]
The Crime Wave of 1900 and the Killing of “Shorty Jones”
In September 1900, Elizabethville and area was besieged with the worst wave of crime and terror it had experienced to date in its history. The Borough Council took the matter […]