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Nice find on the videos.
Bob has added a feature that allows YouTube video to be embedded right in your post…
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Here are two more. Nice shot of the egineer. Ralph
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Thanks Jon
Ric,
If you plan on building #10, I can send you the high resolution photos.
A lot of detail is lost when the picture is resized.
Ralph
Ya missed my musings in chat a while back about building this out of a Bmann Combine didn’t you?
Had a very interesting and informative tour of the old LO&S row yesterday. Met up with about 15 guys at the valley View Restaurant and after a hearty breakfast made our way down to Peach Bottom where the LO&S connected to the Columbia & Port Deposit RR, which was part of the PRR and is now NS. Wasn’t much to see in this area as most of it’s under water after building the Conowingo Dam, just a few miles south. About a mile up the road we stopped at the Dorsey Station, which the Historical Society is trying to buy and preserve from Excelon Co, which owns the property along here and is the local power company.
After the RR was abandoned this became a private residence up to about 30 years ago. The ROW ran where the road is now. It was realigned to cross a creek and straighten the road.
Just beyond the cars in the background we found the remains of the TT pit, ashpit and inspection pit for the engine house. Had quite a trek just to get to it. (and my hands were freezin and left the camera in the car)…
This location was named Fulton House, for obvious reasons. The row was just beyond the tree and wall on the left where a station sat. No evidence any more of one being there.
This is the old freight station at Fulton House, which the historical society now owns. There were a lot of old creameries still standing which Abbott’s dairies owned at one time after the RR was gone. Some were built on the foundations of older ones that stood there when the RR came through.
Ken,
That looks like an interesting area. Fullton’s Steamboat License was issued out of the Marine Safety Office of the USCG in St. Louis. They had a copy of it on the wall of the office along with Samuel Clemen’s. Don’t you have a pencil sketch of LO&S #10 in your house?
Bart,
I guess I did. What did you say?
Ralph,
That would be great! Can you send them to the email - [email protected]?
Sure will Ric
I may have to send one or two at a time because of the file size.
Ralph
Ric Golding said:
Ken,That looks like an interesting area. Fullton’s Steamboat License was issued out of the Marine Safety Office of the USCG in St. Louis. They had a copy of it on the wall of the office along with Samuel Clemen’s. Don’t you have a pencil sketch of LO&S #10 in your house?
Well, no, not really. It’s a water color painting of #10 crossing main street in Oxford on the way to the station. It was done by a local artist named Tom De Mott…unfortunately, that print isn’t available any more.
I also have this one.
http://www.tldemott.com/2009/07/number-98/
If anybody’s interested, here’s a route map of the Little, Old and Slow…
I’ve found a bit of the old ROW when I was working for the phone company from Oxford out to Tweedale years ago and started wondering where the heck this line went and what was it’s name until I came across a booklet about it. Most of the info was gathered by the author from old newspaper clippings that the Oxford Library has on file. Right about then, too, I volunteered to be a chaperon on a school trip the kids made to the RR Museum of Pa in Strasburg where I ran across #10. It went downhill from there…
Here also is the track plan in Oxford where the LOS connected to the PB&W RR. The PB&W line was owned by the PRR and is now owned by SEPTA and is used by the East Penn RR. On the map Buildings 3 and 5 are still there. Behind the gas station the TT pit is still there, although it’s all covered up with gravel.
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Like most of the old rail lines in this area, they all had grand dreams of reaching the Pacific Ocean(or at the very least, central PA or Baltimore) . Unfortunately, the Susquehanna River proved to be a quite an obstacle to those dreams. The PB&W only reached as far as Rising Sun , MD(it never did reach Baltimore or Washington) and the LO&S made it to Peach Bottom, PA. It was intended to reach the coal fields on the EBT RR.
Here’s some more shots of the general area on the second map:
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This is about the general area where the turntable and round house stood:
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Same spot looking south:
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looking north:
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The old Alco in the picture was lettered for the Morrisville and Erie RR. The engines today are marked for the East Penn RR. Whether it’s a different RR operating here now or just an M&E name change, I don’t know. But this line used to run all the way into Philly at one time. In 1974 a hurricane washed out a lot of the track in Delaware Cty, that was used by the Wawa & Concordville RR which was a tourist line. Now this line runs to Chadds Ford then connects to the old Reading line that ran out of Wilmington DE and follows the Brandywine River down to Wilmington. From Chadds Ford the Reading line ran up to and through Coatesville and handled the steel mill up there. There was a tourist line using part of that trackage at one time, from Lenape up to Northbrook, but it’s closed down.
Ken,
Do you happen to know the date of that map?
Ken,
Is there a town named Wawa? Is that where the convenience store gets its name?
Ric, I believe it’s a chain like 7-11. Convenience store/gas bar. But there is a Wawa in Fred’s province.
Randy,
I just know of them in New Jersey. Also found out last year with 3 under 5 grandchildren, they don’t have public bathrooms.
Wife succeeded at begging the use of the one in back. Lady behind the counter was a Grandma, also?
Asking for map date as the town of Quarryville I believe quarried brownstone that built some of Middletown PA (TMI 1979 Dick Thronburgh). Discovered this on house research years ago not RR research. Ashamed to say …didn’t even know the LO&S once existed!
Ric Golding said:
Ken,Is there a town named Wawa? Is that where the convenience store gets its name?
Perhaps not, but I think it inspired a song by George Harrison
Ric Golding said:
Ken, Is there a town named Wawa? Is that where the convenience store gets its name?
Wawa is a small town in Delaware County, Pa. just south of Media, PA on US Rte 1. Wawa Dairy Farms had a dairy farm and milk delivery business there for years. In the late 60’s they opened a small convenience store not to far from where I grew up in Folsom, Pa. I guess they could see the hand writing on the wall about delivering milk. That small convenience store caught on and they started building more. In the late 90’s they started building the mega Wawa’s you see now, with a deli and gas pumps outside. So, I guess you could say the store got it’s name from the town, but it’s mostly been an expansion of the old dairy farm and milk plant that’s still there. Their located mostly in Eastern Pa, NJ, and the furtherest south I’ve seen a Wawa Food Market is in Petersburg VA. One of my wife’s brothers in law does all the maintenance for most of the stores and another one works for Wawa at the plant. (And their chocolate milk is my favorite!!! Great chocolate milk!! just a nostalgia point here; back when my wife’s Bro in law was just getting his business started abck in the early 70’s, I helped him out a bit by cleaning the dairy after work. My favorite stop was near the tank watching the guy make the chocolate milk…;)) Here’s more from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawa_Food_Market The station stop in Wawa had a turntable and a branch of the railroad ran up to West Chester, Pa. and the PB&W connected to the PRR at Wawa. It’s was all electrified back in the 30’s except for the PB&W branch. The West Chester branch was part of the commuter line into Philly till the 70’s when the hurricane damaged a lot of that track, but all the track and all old stone stations are still there. And a lot of the old roadbed can still be seen from Wawa out to Chadds Ford. I do have a pen and ink drawing of one of the stations on the WC branch; this is Glen Mills…
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(the background is actually white, but it didn’t scan too well)