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U Rail23 viewsThis is an example of a U-rail, which was the type of rail used in the Gettysburg RR from its inception (1858) until the 1880's when it was replaced by the more modern T-rail. U-rail is hollow, and does not support larger trains. So larger trains (like the Thatcher-Perkins) could not use the Gettysburg short line in 1863 because they were too heavy for the rail to support.
The reason that some people believe for the need for smaller engines, that the gauge was not standard, it not true. The Gettysburg rail road used a standard 4' 8 1/2" gauge.Chuck
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T226651 viewsHeadquarters of U.S. Sanitary Commission, Hospital Woods at Camp Letterman (c. August 1863). Showing Rev. Gordon Winslow seated at right with surgeons and nurse/volunteers in front of headquarters tent; woods and other tents surrounding them.encount1
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T227146 viewsView into Hospital Woods, showing headquarters of Sanitary Commission tent surrounded by other tents; large Union flag draped over headquarters. (c. 1863)
Chuck
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T229436 viewsCarriage, Napoleon, and stacked cannon balls at redan on East Cemetery Hill, Stewart's Battery B, 4th US, Tipton #28572 (c. 1900s). View southward across Baltimore Pike, showing Union itinerary tablets, entrance gates and walk of Lafayette square fence.Chuck
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T229652 viewsFrom Stevens' Knoll, showing position of one of 5th Maine Battery guns, looking over ground occupied by the Louisiana Tigers, Tipton #358 (c.1884). View north towards Gettysburg from a grass-covered, high redan on Stevens Knoll, with second style of light gun carriage (Navy contract?)Chuck
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T229835 viewsView from the Culp Farm from Hanover Road, looking towards East Cemetery Hill, Tipton #2065 (1889-1893). Showing cut-down and harrowed corn field in foreground, mammoth hay stacks in front of barn, orchard, lane house and carriage house.Chuck
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T2311b134 viewsSpangler's Spring from junction of Confederate and Slocum Avenue, showing new stone housing with rail and plaques (noted with arrow) and guard shelter (1905-1910). Sign at right designates "Garbage Pit" (note masonary by boulders at right of photo) and warns "Build no fires."
Chuck
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T2311b334 viewsSpangler's Spring and guard shelter from hill between Pardee Field and Spangler Meadow, showing rear of guard shelter and spring stonework (arrow designates spring). (1905-1910)Chuck
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T231233 viewsEast Cemetery Hill panorama from near Baltimore Pike, Composite of three photographs. Same as #1838 but terribly out of focus.Chuck
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t233726 viewsHowe Avenue from the south, showing westernmost position of avenue. Howe marker to the left of 119th Pa. Monument at right. Disc harrow parked in field at left.Chuck
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Tipton 234235 viewsHigh Water Mark of the Rebellion, (c.1890s). View from east side of an earthen Hancock Avenue, showing monument with plaza and steps (but without approach walk). Copse of trees surrounded by Calvin Gilbert fence, notice by Smith Granite Company for $50 Reward against those defacing monuments, and two bronze markers of Massachusetts Infantry.Chuck
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T235833 viewsCowen's Battery Monument and entrance to Harrow Avenue from Copse of Trees (1914-1920s). View to the southeast showing monuments on Hancock Avenue to US Regulars monument. Pa monument in distance.Chuck
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