News - 2026
April 2026 - YouTube Content Addition
The latest addition to our YouTube offerings is now available. For more information and to view more videos, please visit the chapters "Video / YouTube" page.
The High Line - Spring 2026 (Mailed: April 14, 2026)
"The High Line” is a Philadelphia Chapter publication, included with all memberships and is published twice annually.
Always anticipated, with content originating from knowledgeable members, including ex-PRR employees.
Publications are mailed directly to
chapter members only. If you would like to obtain a copy, please
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The High Line Volume 38, No.1 (April 2026)
The Spring 2026 issue of "The High Line,"
includes a variety of features. The 64-page includes
stories on...
- Interesting insights from our readers
- A 1965 Christmas Trip - by Bradford G. Phillips,
- Passenger Stations on the Connecting Railway - by Ed Duffy,
- Development and Operations of ZOO - by Glenn Fisher with Lin Bongaard,
- 1960s P-RSL Photos - by Russell T. Sharp,
- A "What are we looking at?" story - by Tim Garner, images from Mark Cole collection,
- And tributes to Charlie Horan.
If you have content that you would like to contribute to a future issue of The High Line, please email editor Tim Garner at: thehighline@philaprrths.com
March 2026 - YouTube Content Addition
The latest addition to our YouTube offerings is now available. For more information and to view more videos, please visit the chapters "Video / YouTube" page.
Chapter Meeting - March 7, 2026
Modelers Presentation ("Progress on My PRR Layout - Part II")
Chapter member Tim Garner, High Line and East Wind editor, TKM Art Director and author presented – Tim’s three-level HO layout is two layouts in one featuring Baltimore’s Penn Station circa 1955 on the top level, and the Ft. Wayne line in Ohio circa 1946-1953 on the bottom two levels.
He reported on the design and first five years of construction to the Philadelphia Chapter four years ago (see his 3/5/22 presentation on the chapter’s YouTube channel). A lot has happened in the four years since. As such, Tim spoke to his progress, methods, and lessons learned on Penn Station and environs, plus developments in Crestline and Massillon, Ohio.
Feature Presentation ("All Aboard Cape May, NJ on the Reading Seashore Lines to Chicago Union Station on the Pennsylvania Railroad) Russell T. Sharp, former Pennsylvania Railroad Chainman and Drexel Institute of Technology student presented. Russell displayed and discussed photos taken in the 1960s on the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines and the Pennsylvania Railroad. Includes locomotives, roundhouses, trains and many other things that you don’t see anymore.
January 2026 - YouTube Content Addition
The latest addition to our YouTube offerings is a PRR model railroad. For more information and to view more videos, please visit the chapters "Video / YouTube" page.
