Chester Valley right-of-way, looking west from Bridgeport.
Description: Chester Valley right-of-way, looking west from Bridgeport. Some ties were replaced in 1956-57, as well as some slag ballesting as of the time of this photograph, October, 1959. This stretch was called “the long straightway” by generations of Bridgeport kids.
Photographer/artist: Jim Brazel
Date taken: October 1959
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Type: photo
Subject: Railroad
Township: Upper Merion
Source: Jim Brazel
References: The Chester Valley Railroad, by Robert Geasey, TEQ 38-3 (July 2000); Scenes along the Chester Valley Railroad in Tredyffrin, by Jim Brazel, TEQ 43-4 (Fall 2006)
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Notes: Slides from a presentation by Jim Brazel on the Chester Valley Railroad
