In this episode of the Uncharted Lancaster Podcast, we take a deep dive into the dramatic…
Tag: Atglen & Susquehanna
The Enola Low Grade: Iron, Blood, and Engineering Glory
The Enola Low Grade stands as one of the most ambitious—and costly—engineering projects in the history…
Smith Tower Gatehouse: The Odd-Looking Castle Turret on the Enola Low Grade
It looks like a castle turret hiding in the woods—but it wasn’t built for knights or…
Brief History of the Atglen & Susquehanna Branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad
In 1903, the Pennsylvania Railroad began an ambitious three-year engineering project which ran through Lancaster County,…
Art: Smith Tower on the Enola Low Grade
Pennsylvania Railroad's mightly M1 steam locomotive No. 6857 blasting its way westward past Smith Tower.
Visit the ambitious Lancaster County engineering project that killed 200 men and cost half a billion dollars. Traverse the Enola Low-Grade Rail Trail.
The Enola Low-Grade Line was the engineering marvel of its day. More earth was moved in…