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The Cornwall Railroad acquired the Cornwall and Mount Hope Railroad in 1886, extending its line another 5 miles (8.0 km) to Mount Hope, Pennsylvania, where it interchanged with the Reading and Columbia Railroad. [5] Cornwall Railroad passenger trains used the Reading station in Lebanon until the end of passenger service on January 29, 1929.
The railway track or permanent way is the elements of railway lines: generally the pairs of rails typically laid on the sleepers or ties embedded in ballast, intended to carry the ordinary trains of a railway. It is described as a permanent way because, in the earlier days of railway construction, contractors often laid a temporary track to ...
Cornwall was initially settled by Peter Grubb in 1734. [4] Peter was a Chester County stonemason who came to, what was then Lancaster County , in search of high quality stone for quarrying . First building his house and then a store, he discovered magnetite iron ore nearby and decided to test its quality, he found the ore to be exceedingly pure.
One of the 2 ft (610 mm) gauge 4-4-0 locomotives of the Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge Railway. The Mount Gretna Narrow Gauge Railway was a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow-gauge line of the Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad in the state of Pennsylvania that operated between 1889 and 1915 under the parent Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad Company.
When Pennsylvania first legislated routes in 1911, present-day PA 117 was not given a route number. [4] PA 117 was designated in 1928 to run from PA 5 (now US 322) in Campbelltown north to US 22 (now US 422) in Palmyra, following Palmyra Road and South Railroad Street while PA 853 was designated to run from Mount Gretna east to PA 72 west of Cornwall. [5]
1870: "Pennsylvania Central" is split into lines east (renamed Pennsylvania Railroad) and lines west Pennsylvania Company is formed to hold securities from companies West of Pittsburgh; Use of track pans begins on PRR at Sang Hollow, Pennsylvania; [13] Pennsy reaches Cincinnati, Ohio, with lease of Little Miami and St. Louis, Missouri, with ...
PA 419 is a two-lane undivided road its entire length and passes through rural areas. The portion of the route in Lebanon County is designated the Lebanon Cornwall Scenic Byway, a Pennsylvania Scenic Byway. What is now PA 419 was designated as part of PA 5 between Quentin and Cornwall and part of PA 83 between Rehrersburg and north of Schubert ...
This historic train station was designed by George Watson Hewitt and built in 1885 by the Cornwall & Lebanon Railroad. It was then expanded in 1912. A two-story, brick, brownstone and terra cotta building designed in an eclectic Victorian style that reflects seventeenth-century Flemish, Romanesque, and Chateauesque influences, it features a broad porch roof with ornamental iron brackets. [2]