Join us Saturday, September 15, from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. when the folks from Steam Into History will be participating in the New Freedom Fest. Come visit our booth, you will be entertained by Rich Pawling, author, reenactor, musician, college professor and historian. Converse with Civil War Christian Commission reenactors and have your photo taken with two 1860’s Railroad conductors.
Steam Into History’s Dave Watson has a new video for you to preview, volunteer and Lincoln Scholar, Tina Grim will be there presenting the first of our Steam Into History trading cards.
You could win a family four pack of tickets for the 2013 season, the grand prize winner will have the opportunity to ride with the train engineer.
I hope you can join us for a day of fun, music and good conversation. We will be located near the New Freedom Museum, on Railroad Avenue.
Debi Dwyer Beshore
Steam Into History
Manager-Sales and Administration
717-600-6535
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As much as I love history, there is really nothing significant that happened during the civil war on the N&C railroad. Yes Lincoln rode the line, but he rode other railroads as well. He did not speak at Hanover Junction.
There were no battles along this stretch of the railroad–any destruction I believe occurred north of Hanover Junction. I would like to see this succeed, but there is very little history, other than RR history involved in this part of the line. If the G-burg RR has trouble staying afloat, I cannot see that this enterprise will be different.
Has anything been done to make the remaining line usable?? 2013 is close and I will ride it one time–not for history, but because it is interesting as NC RR history.