For the preceding railroads used to form this railway line, see South Mountain Railroad (Cumberland) and Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad.
Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway
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.
Overview
Locale
Pennsylvania, United States
History
Opened
1891 (1891)
Technical
Track gauge
4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Route map
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.
The GettysburgandHarrisburgRailway was a Pennsylvania line from near Carlisle southward to Gettysburg operated by a subsidiary of the Reading Company...
The GettysburgandHarrisburg Railroad (G. & H. R. R.) was a railway line of Pennsylvania from Hunter's Run southward to Gettysburg in the 19th century...
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The Gettysburg Battlefield is the area of the July 1–3, 1863, military engagements of the Battle of Gettysburg in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania...
Grove Iron Works and the Cumberland Valley Railroad's Carlisle Junction then being purchased by the 1891 GettysburgandHarrisburgRailway company. The real...
Central Railway. The historic Northern Central Railway was a vital transportation artery during the American Civil War. The line ran between Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...
andGettysburg Street Railway Co (Mt. Holly Trolley Co.), northeast to Harrisburg via the Dillsburg, York Springs andGettysburg Street Railway, and south...
headquarters at Gettysburg was at 231 Baltimore Street,: 22 with the Harrisburg office of the Secretary (later nicknamed the "Duke of Gettysburg") in Pennsylvania...
of Gettysburg, including Union Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickles, were evacuated via the Northern Central to hospitals in Harrisburg, Baltimore, York, and elsewhere...
Bendersville (colloq. "Asper's Station" by 1888) was a GettysburgandHarrisburg Railroad (G&H) stop east of Bendersville, Pennsylvania, with facilities...
Baltimore and Governor Curtin from Harrisburg, the two groups meeting at Hanover Junction and proceeding together on the Hanover Branch to Gettysburg. After...
Gettysburg National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, created for Union casualties from the Battle of Gettysburg...
lines. Chambersburg andGettysburg Electric Railway Hilton, George W.; Due, John Fitzgerald (2000). The Electric Interurban Railways in America. Stanford...
Most are located within Gettysburg National Military Park; others are on private land at battle sites in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Together...
The railway cut of the Gettysburg Battlefield was the place of an 1863 military engagement during the first Day of the Battle of Gettysburg, near the...
Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad (1874), Baltimore andHarrisburgRailway (1885), and Western Maryland Railway (1917). The last passenger...
Railwayand Mining Company's plan for an 1880 westward rail extension to an ore bed was never built.) "Pine Grove" was listed on the Gettysburgand Harrisburg...
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