Exploring Abandoned Lancaster-Quarryville Pennsylvania Railroad Line.
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2021
- This line started out as the Lancaster and Quarryville Railroad and was completed in 1875. Originally planned to be a narrow gauge route under the name Lancaster and Reading Narrow Gauge Railroad in 1871, the decision to make it standard gauge was decided shortly before construction began in 1874. As with most railroads in rural Pennsylvania, it carried both passengers and freight. 1890’s train schedules show trips between Quarryville and Lancaster being completed in just under an hour.
Passenger service along the line ceased in 1909. A few years later, the L&Q merged with the Pennsylvania Railroad on April 30th, 1915.
The railroad was severely damaged by flooding caused by Hurricane Agnes on June 23-24, 1972, and was abandoned soon after.
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Locations of pics:
Lancaster City PA:
0:27: Norfolk Southern Rail Yard.
0:36: Dillerville Rd.
0:51: Franklin & Marshall College.
1:01: Warehouse Row.
1:05: Janice C. Stork Corridor Park.
1:12: Water Street.
1:36: Conestoga River.
1:47: Buchmiller Park.
2:05: Mill Creek.
2:22: Eckman Rd.
2:26: Brenneman Road.
2:33: West Willow Station.
2:44: Baumgardner Station.
2:54: Smithville PA.
2:59: Pequea Creek.
3:16: Refton PA.
3:27: Big Beaver Creek.
New Providence PA:
3:35: Pennsy Rd.
3:49: Goff Run.
3:52: Big Beaver Creek.
Quarryville PA:
4:07: Big Beaver Creek East Branch.
4:28: Enola Low Grade Rail Trail.
4:31: Quarryville Rail Yard.
4:49: Quarryville Station.
5:02: Main St. (372)
All of the color photos are originals, taken and owned by myself.
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I swear .. looking at those old bridges is like staring at a time capsule.. great video 👊
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What an awesome tribute. Just think about the amount of labor that went into laying track etc………all in the rear view mirror now. Loved all the viaducts, bridges, and trestles. Thanks for sharing 👍
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(Locations of the pics are in the description.) Pennsylvania was once home to the largest railroad company in the world, The Pennsylvania Railroad. Our state has many active and abandoned railroad and trolley lines. Also, my hometown is home to the Pennsylvania Railroad Museum and the Strasburg Railroad. We also have access to one of the fastest passenger lines in the country, The Keystone Express. Great effort was made not to trespass on private property while shooting this video. The reason for no speech or text in this video is because I wanted it to be uncluttered. If you like this sort of content, please support this channel by visiting the affiliate links in the description. Thank you for watching!✌️ 🚂
As a trucker who went through PA many times. I'd admire the old railroads and history there.
hi Amish Trucker Whow Pennsylvania Man What a State Put this on Again Big Irish Fan Brian Many Irish Immigrants built those Railways hard work n u wonder what pay Sla'inte
hi tks I Admire The Amish People i saw tvdocumentary decades ago I know of them n Pennsylvania also n film, witness,
I miss our rails to trails in Clearfield, PA. Everything in Florida is flat, more monotonous and usually too humid to bike.
Even so, I’m looking forward to biking the new rail trail spanning Sarasota County. You forgot to mention grade crossings! Rail lines in hilly areas tend to have more grade separation while maintaining low grades. Thanks for watching.
Really good video, well made. I like the before and after images. I'm always sad to see tracks torn up or paved over, but sections of it look to be good rails to trails candidates. The music was very relaxing. Thanks for posting.
Thank you for your kind comments JC. The section from the Conestoga river to Millcreek is a good candidate for a rail trail and most of it is currently a de facto hiking trail as it is owned by Buchmiller Park. Most of the former ROW is private property now.
FANTASTIC video! Well put together, and I ❤️ the old photos compared to the new one! I wonder how many places I've been by the used to be railtoadcyracks!
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Great video. Reminds me of how the old PRR line from Dover to Marrieta Ohio looks now.
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So sad- Paulo From Brazil!
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My Great Grandfather B.F. Shank work on the Quarryville to Lancaster line for years. He was a brakeman and conductor. My Grandfather Harry F. Shank was a boy when the RR was built and helped build the line. He had a camera at 12 through selling $10 worth of Larkins soap along with all the equipment to process the glass negatives into photographs. After Elizabeth College he taught school a few years, was a carpenter and carried mail a year or two. Later he was hired in the RR mail service and worked 31 years in that service retiring in 1952. He told me that if you mailed a letter to Pittsburg from NYC Monday it would arrive Tuesday morning. Mail would be sorted and readied along the way. He lived to 97 and was born in Quarryville in 1892. The RR was greatly Loved and Appreciated by many back then. I remember well when Hurricane Agnes washed out many sections of track and bridges. Of course it was never repaired. Kind Thanks for this great look about a well used line in the history of the RR in Lancaster County! DaveyJO near Quarryville
Thanks for sharing! What a blessing that he lived to that age and was able to share that history. I have a friend that was in the battle of the bulge and when he talks about the war I try to just listen and take it in. Thank you.
We lived in Lancaster for 12 years and moved away in 2011. I remember when they took out that trestle at time 2:31 & 2:32 but I can't remember the name of the road now. My sister-in-law used to live on Orange St. and I use to like driving up Water St. just to picture how the trains used to run thru there. Excellent flashback in time and thanks for your time making this video.
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4:37 - 4:40 Doing a freeze frame one could read the newspaper's sad account of the line shutting down.
I very much enjoyed this -- the back-and-forth, here-and-now shots. Good quality photography. The video is nicely / gently paced.
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I lived here for 5 years for college and remember the tracks that led to nowhere over by F&M. This makes so much more sense now, thank you
Those tracks were used by this line but they also continued to the former train station in the city and reconnected with the mainline to the east. That ROW is also abandoned and will hopefully be a rails to trails someday soon.
Very well done! Thank you for da glimpse into da past, as well as da present! 👍👍
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Awesome video..what a marvel in engineering.
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My all time favorite railroad. When I was a kid I’d have my mom drive on roads where the tracks still existed. I hiked a decent amount of the old railroad bed back in the 90’s and took a ton of pics
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After Agnes there was a connection built onto the low grade line near the bridge where the low grade crosses over the Quarryville line, you can still see whats left of it if you take a walk on the rail trail. Not sure if the tracks were still in service all the way to New Providence from Quarryville, but the connection and the remainder of the line was abandoned in 1984, with the exception of the part on Water Street in the city which was used into the early 90's.
Thank you Brian
Outstanding video my friend. There’s a similar track (hell it might be the same) in Atglen, Pennsylvania. It has some very interesting bridges and underpasses in that area if you’re interested.
Thanks for watching! The Enola Low Grade Line intersected this line in Quarryville (4:28 in the video) It is now open to the public as a trail.
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Very enjoyable! Excellent historical and contemporary documentation. Well done!
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Nicely done video with the historic & present - day photo comparisons, appropriate music as well. Would be nice to see the remaining bridges decked over for a rail-trail conversion, also at least preserves the ROW.
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Omg, the added music to this, so beautiful & beyond, very touching, moving ... Please! what is the title to it, and who performs this? I gotta know. It reminds me of past loved ones who are no longer with us ... the kind of music I'd play, while visiting my late mother and grandmother's graves, at the cemetery, etc etc etc, in their memory & honor, with such grace (and gratitude as well).
Thanks! The music is the “Ken Burns Theme” in the Apple slideshow app. On iPhone, select photos, select options, music, Ken Burns Theme. The song is a classical number called "finale" not sure who performs this version for Apple.
ruclips.net/video/_XkxeKcI9hc/видео.html here is a great version by tayofromohio
the loco at 1:12 looks like 1223, which ran at the Strasburg Railroad for a while and is now in the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania just across the street from it
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Fantastic video, love the pics, keep up the great work 👍
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Wonderful video!
Thanks for sharing it.
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Cool video
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Great video! 😄
Thank you Matt!
Very cool video. Good job
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Great video
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I so remember street running on water street when I was a kid growing up in the city! Your dates for hurricane Agnes though are wrong it was 6/22/1972 into 6/23/1972 the 22d was my birthday and I was throwing a fit until my Mom went and picked up my cake... in a full blown hurricane (SMH now)
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The photo of the "last train to Quarryville" cannot be dated correctly. Conrail didn't even begin until 1976, so the 1972 date is incorrect. Plus, I was in college in the late 80's and there were still trains traveling the "low grade" from Safe Harbor Dam to Philadelphia running through Quarryville at that time. Was it just the Lancaster to Quarryville line that was deleted???
After Agnes they built a connection to the low grade line at the Quarryville yard. The direct connection to Lancaster was lost. The low grade line was abandoned in 1988 and that was the end of trains to Quarryville
@@theamishrebels That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
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I see in the narrative the locations and the time stamps. I could not find a lot of the locations and it was a lot of trouble to go to from the narrative to the video. Look, I know a lot of love and care went into this, but if you ever do another one - you need to revisit how you do these. Everytime you switch locations, have a break with a point on the map where you are.., a current map. I know nothing about this train trail, but I follow many.., please take this as constructive criticism. Thank you for your effort.
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@@theamishrebels They could definitely still have the trailer and rails so this way if they ever put trains on there people could see the trains running again while people are riding there bycical or jogging.
Some of the abandoned railroad s are definitely coming back slowly but surely. Like the maybrook Connecticut and the the Putnam trailer and railroad s. Even though they don't have the tracks anymore and it's a Greenway Putnam trailer they are definitely starting to bring the Putnam railroad trains back and they are planning and cutting ✂️ down the trees. I have noticed this last year when they were doing the planning cameras by the home storage Broadway there are some remaining of the Putnam train tracks and the old rusted box fraigt car is there. They still have the old vancourtland park Putnam train station and the dubble trestles one for trailer and one for the train 🚃 tracks to put on them.
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