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Following the fall of Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861, during the opening months of the American Civil War, the Hanover Junction Railroad Station became a key transportation hub for the movement of Union Army soldiers from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to Maryland, Washington, D.C. and other areas in the southern United States where federal troops were stationed to protect cities, towns, and ...
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 .
A 6-mile (10 km) long section of the Ma and Pa's old right-of-way was converted in 1998 to a rail trail in Harford County, Maryland, now designated as part of the Ma & Pa Trail. [15] In Baltimore, Ma and Pa track remnants and the old roundhouse, freight shed, and yard shed remain along Falls Road near Baltimore Penn Station. [16]
Pennsylvania Rail Trails are former railway lines that have been converted to paths designed for pedestrian, bicycle, skating, equestrian, or light motorized traffic. Rail trails are multi-use paths offering, at a minimum, a combination of pedestrian and cycle recreation.
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.
Built new for the US Army as 1685, later B-1685, later bought in 2016 by the PA & Southern in Chambersburg, PA. Acquired by McHugh Locomotive in 2023, and later sold to Northern Central Railway in September of 2024. 6076 GP9: Diesel: EMD: 1957 Built for the Pennsylvania Railroad. 7580 GP10: Diesel EMD 1957
Map from 1895, indicating control by Western Maryland Railway. 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 Railroa
The advantage for the road was cutting the distance to the rail center at York, Pennsylvania by 7 or 8 miles (11 or 13 km). The distance from Hanover Junction to Frederick was 69 miles (111 km) less than through the Frederick branch. The grades at no point on the proposed route exceeded sixty feet to the mile (1.14%). [22]