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In May 1865, the Northern Central Railway completed construction of a double track between Baltimore and Hanover Junction. A new coaling depot that would service freight engines at Hanover Junction was also erected. [13] Later that same year, on November 22, a Baltimore Express train scheduled to arrive Pittsburgh derailed near Hanover Junction ...
The Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad was a railroad line in Pennsylvania in the 19th century. The 38 mile (61 km) main line ran from Orrtanna to Hanover Junction , where it connected with the Northern Central Railway (a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad ).
Hanover Junction is a small unincorporated community, which is located in south-central York County, Pennsylvania, United States, near the borough of Seven Valleys. The junction serves as a rest stop on the York County Heritage Rail Trail .
The Northern Central Railway of York (reporting mark NCRA) is a non-profit, Civil War themed heritage railroad based in New Freedom, Pennsylvania.A reproduction 4-4-0 steam locomotive hauls passengers over 10 miles of Northern Central Railway track between New Freedom and Hanover Junction, Pennsylvania. [1]
A tractor-trailer hit the historic railroad bridge in Seven Valleys earlier this month and caused so much damage that the Northern Central Railway excursion train will not be able to travel across it.
A heritage railway operated on the NCRY line as a dinner train in the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. In 2013, the Northern Central Railway of York (then known as Steam Into History) began operations between New Freedom and Hanover Junction, operating a replica of a Civil War-era 4-4-0 steam locomotive. [95]
The Hanover Branch Railroad is associated with historic events during the Civil War.It carried the parties of President Abraham Lincoln and Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin from Hanover Junction to Gettysburg on November 18, 1863, where President Lincoln delivered the next day his Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery.
On March 4, 1851, Robert McCurdy, Josiah Benner, and Henry Myers secured a charter for the Gettysburg Railroad Company. [1] The groundbreaking was on February 22, 1856; [1] the first mortgage was issued in 1857, [2] and the railroad opened between Hanover Junction [3] and New Oxford on January 6, 1858 [4] (the first passenger train had entered Adams County on September 14, 1857). [1]