BY STEVE BARRY/PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR O
ABOVE: American-type locomotive York passes the mill at Glen Rock, Penn., on November 16, 2013. The 1860s locomotive was built new by Klocke Locomotive Works and entered service this year. The painted sign on the mill tells its own story in the Battle of Gettysburg — it was the need for supplies (shoes and clothes) that brought the Confederate troops above the Mason-Dixon Line. LEFT: Veteran Lincoln presenter James Hayney poses with York at Hanover Junction.
NE OF THE MOST INTERESTING tourist railroads in the coun- try started operating in 2013. Called “Steam Into History,” the line operates on the old Northern Central (a subsidiary of the Penn- sylvania Railroad). The original Northern Central connected Balti- more with Harrisburg, Penn.; to- day’s tourist operation runs on only a small piece of that trackage, be- tween the Pennsylvania towns of New Freedom and Hanover Junc- tion. The line is historically signifi- cant in that it was used by Presi- dent Abraham Lincoln in 1863 when he traveled to Gettysburg to deliver his famous address, chang- ing trains at Hanover Junction. Steam Into History has tried to capture some of the feel of railroad- ing in Lincoln’s day. The locomotive is a brand new replica of an 1860s 4- 4-0, York, constructed by Klocke Lo- comotive Works in 2013. While it sports a balloon stack typical of woodburning locomotives, York burns fuel oil.
In mid-November York was joined by a sister locomotive,
Leviathan, which was built by Klocke in 2009. The two were to- gether for a week in Pennsylvania. While there the two Americans paid tribute to some of railroad history’s greatest moments, including the Great Locomotive Chase from the Civil War and the driving of the Golden Spike from 1869. It wasn’t the two locomotives together, though, that got me out to New Freedom. Instead, it was the fact that the rides have been so popular that Steam Into History had to add some night runs. This intrigued me. Thus, on November 16 I headed out to New Freedom. Trips with Leviathan had been scheduled from the previous Satur- day through Wednesday, with noth- ing announced beyond that. Thus I was pleasantly surprised to find Leviathan on the northbound end of the morning train to Hanover Junc- tion. York followed a few minutes behind, and would couple on to the south end of the train for the return trip. The procedure was supposed to
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