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Lancaster & Reading Narrow Gauge Railroad Company


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The Lancaster and Reading Narrow Gauge Railroad was chartered in 1871 to build a 4 foot gauge route from Safe Harbor to Lancaster to Reading, with a branch from Lancaster to Quarryville, competing with the Reading & Columbia. Construction began on the branch line to Quarryville, but was quickly changed to standard gauge.

Hindered by the Panic of 1873, the company struck a deal with the Philadelphia & Reading to complete the line from Lancaster to Quarryville in return for control of the company, which it did in the following year. It thus became an extension of the Reading's Lancaster Branch.

We are currently offering the following pieces from the Lancaster and Reading Narrow Gauge Railroad Company:





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