Histories:
History of the Columbia & Port Deposit Railroad

Line Guide:
Sunnyside Yard-New York Penn Station (inactive link)
New York Penn Station to Philadelphia 30th Street Station
Philadelphia 30th Street Station to Potomac Yard
Enola Yard to Perryville (inactive link)
Philadelphia 30th Street Station to Harrisburg

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Line Guide:
Philadelphia 30th Street Station to Harrisburg

Railfan guide to this line. (Coming Soon)
Towers and interlockings along this line.
Branches that connect to this line.
Timetable

More to be added soon!

Special thanks to Chris Ruhl.

Towers and interlockings along this line:

*Means Tower is still standing but is in-active. 
**Means tower is still standing and active.
+Means tower is in-active and has been demolished.

**ZOO- Which was created out of about fourteen individual towers, is being broken up - you guessed it - back to a number of individual control points (not towers, but the idea is the same).  Ironically, there was a tower at what is now MANTUA back in the early 1900's that was absorbed into ZOO, and is now back to MANTUA again!  LOL!  Just no "tower".

(?)VALLEY-Connection with SEPTA Ivy Ridge Branch.

**OVERBROOK-Crossovers.

*BRYN MAWR-Still stands after the basement fire on January 1994 that finished the place and made it "remoted" to PAOLI. Note 1

**PAOLI- The MU shop and yard no longer exist here. Still needed to handle the BRYN MAWR interlocking and the 4-3 track reduction plant.  May control a new "remoted" interlocking at FRAZIER, not sure if THORN got the honors or not.

+GLEN-Connection with Morrisville Cut-Off. Note 2

+DOWNS-Crossovers. Note 2

**THORN- Still needed for some of the Conrail traffic on the old Trenton Cut-Off (or, to some, the "Morrisville Branch"), and to handle casual freight on the old Atglen and Susquehanna that branches off at PARK. 

+CALN-West end of Conrail's Thorndale yard. Note 2

**PARK-More or less closed up, only open for trackwork, which is once in a Blue Moon.  The famous Atglen and Susquehanna low-grade freight cut-off that was constructed by PRR president Cassatt to help alleviate crowded conditions many moons ago, branched off here and made its way to Harrisburg eventually. The old A&S is now abandoned except for a one-mile spur off PARK to an industry in Atglen.

LEEMAN-Crossover and connection with Strasburg Railroad (TBS).

**CORK- Handles stuff in the Lancaster, PA area.

FLORIN-Crossover (TBS).

ELIZABETHTOWN-Crossovers (TBS).

+ROY-Connection with CR Royalton branch. Note 3

**STATE-Harrisburg station terminal.

Notes:
1. - Remote controlled from PAOLI.

2. - Remote controlled from THORN.

3. - Remote controlled from STATE.

Branches that connect to this line:

Ivy Ridge branch: SEPTA commuter branch to Cynwyd. Diverges from mainline at VALLEY.

Morrisville Cut-Off: For a description, see the "Morrisville Cut-Off" description on the "New York to Philadelphia" line guide. Diverges from mainline at GLEN.

Enola Branch: Operated by Conrail. Formerly known as the Atglen & Susquehanna branch (when under PRR control), stretches from PARK to Safe Harbor, PA, on the Port Road branch. To my knowledge, the line is currently abandoned.

Royalton branch: CR operated. Diverges from mainline at ROY and continues to SHOCKS (Shocks Mill, PA), where it connects with the Port Road branch

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