This is the depot in White Deer Pennsylvania. It was built by the Reading Railroad in 1912, right after the previous station burned down. Originally, Reading took over this rail line from the Catawissa, Danville and Milton Railroad. This was also the eastern terminus of the White Deer Valley narrow gauge lumbering railroad.
Here’s a close up of the depot. It now serves as a museum as well as the home and primary meeting place for the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Railroading Historical Society. This chapter was formed back in 1973…and it was chapter number 133 when it was founded.
There is a fair amount of rolling stock on hand on the Museum’s property. Here we have a couple of old cabooses as well as some work/inspection cars. The museum itself is open on Sunday afternoons only.
This attractive railroad line shack has been moved to the White Deer Depot and Museum site and preserved.
The rolling stock includes quite a few passenger coach cars. Very short railway excursion trains are periodically dispatched from the Deer Valley Railroad Museum. The museum has 2 engines…a small old Plymouth switcher and a GE-45 ton switcher. (Unit #10)
Thanks to Milton’s Mayor Nelson for directions to this semi-hidden location. The White Deer Depot and Railway Museum is located just south of White Deer Pennsylvania just before the old dismantled railway bridge over US Route 15. Turn west on Depot Road.
Just click on any photo to enlarge it…
Thanks for stopping by for a visit!
Take Care, Big Daddy Dave
If you didn't know better those could have been taken in the 1950's, except maybe for the well kept landscaping
ReplyDeleteHi Dave,
ReplyDeleteI am currently conducting research for the Union County Historical Society (UCHS) in Central Pennsylvania on the railroad history of the county and surrounding areas. The Historical Society is a non-profit organization and I work as a non-paid volunteer. The plan for the work is a publication that will be part of the society’s Heritage Series. I have located an image on your website that fits well with the story I am telling, and with this message I am requesting permission to publish it in a future UCHS publication. If granted, please indicate how credit should be given. The associated website is shown below.
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Tom Rich
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Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
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PS: If granted permission for use; a higher resolution image would be very helpful