Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad Station Number 68: Red Lion

(Redlionpa.org) - The original 1874 station on this site was privately built by Mrs. Catherine Meyer and served as a general store, bar, post office and railroad station for the Peach Bottom Railway Company (one of the many predecessors of the Maryland & Pennsylvania RR). When the original station was destroyed by fire in 1895, a second station was rebuilt to the original plans. For 106 years this site had served as an active train station, finally closing on November 1, 1980. It was the only all brick station ever built by this railroad.
... A typical example of freight shipments forwarded by 40 local firms from the Red Lion Station on the Ma & Pa RR during the month of October 1929 included approximately 15,000,000 cigars, 1633 cases of tobacco, 10,321 radio cabinets, 5033 crates of furniture, 11 carloads of canned goods, 2 cars of wheat flour, 3 cars of tobacco stems, 2 cars of hay, and 50,000 pounds of miscellaneous freight. Inbound freight received at the Red Lion Station during the same time period was 12,617,315 pounds. Continued

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