Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad stock certificate c1882 (Pennsylvania)

Battlefield excursion railroad! Handsome vignette of a period stream train loading passengers. Unissued and not cancelled. Circa 1882 from corporate records and issued examples.  Measures approximately 11 x 7.5 inches.   

Incorporated 1882, the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad was a railway line from Hunter's Run southward to Gettysburg. The north junction was with the South Mountain RR, and a crossing with the Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad's westward extension was at Gettysburg. The crossing also served as a junction for westbound trains to transfer southward across the Gettysburg Battlefield via the G. & H. R. R.'s Round Top Branch to the company's Little Round Top Park.

Groundbreaking was on April 18, 1883, and grading had been started by June 20 and completed in October, except for December grading of the Gettysburg roundhouse lot on the north side of the "Tapeworm" right-of-way. Tracklaying had begun on August 20, 1883; the 1st train arrived February 26, 1884 and scheduled passenger service began April 21, 1884.

The first Gettysburg excursion train to Pine Grove Park was on May 28, 1884. Two additional G. & H. R. R. stations were south of Gettysburg for excursions on the Round Top Branch; which had been surveyed by July 14, 1882; had begun construction by May 1884; and had started operations in June 1884. Beginning with the 1884 Camp Gettysburg, the Round Top Branch supported various Gettysburg Battlefield camps after the American Civil War such as the 1918 Camp Colt.

The Reading Railroad took control of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad on May 22, 1891.

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