The Cumberland Valley Railroad transported troops and materials to and from Harrisburg and Hagerstown. It became a major target of the Confederates. J.E.B. Stewart’s cavalry raided Pennsylvania ...

via Cumberland. My object ... the travel over the Pennsylvania Central Railroad is very great. All travelers for the West have now to go by this route, entailing a heavy expenditure of both ...

26. A terrible collision took place on the Cumber land Valley Railroad this morning, one mile above Harrisburgh. One of the trains had a number of Pennsylvania Militia on board, returning home ...

William Wallace Atterbury. After the war he returned home. In 1919 the Cumberland Valley Railroad had been absorbed by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Kennedy was named vice president of the line.

The Gettysburg Heritage Center in Pennsylvania hosted this talk. Scott Mingus, co-author of Targeted Tracks, talked about the importance of the Cumberland Valley Railroad during the Civil War.

The magnificent iron furnaces of long ago were constructed of large stones with the necessary iron binders being placed at specific areas to hold the structure in place. The furnace was built ...

The lives were saved as the church served as a hub for the Underground Railroad.The Emmanuel Parish of the Episcopal Church in Cumberland ... making their way onto Pennsylvania.From there it ...

This picture shows the Pioneer at the Cumberland Valley Railroad's Franklin yard on Grant Street in Chambersburg during the early 1900s. The Pennsylvania Railroad moved the engine once again to ...