2024 PRR Chronology Now Online 

You may remember that at our last annual meeting in Harrisburg, a presentation was made to the Society of Chris Baer's 2024 version of his comprehensive chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad upon which he was working at the time of his death in mid-2025. Over more than 30 years he compiled 188 volumes consisting of 18,230 pages of detailed information taken directly from actual Pennsylvania Railroad records, arranged by date along with citations and a bibliography, plus other ancillary information, such as passenger train names and an introduction he wrote himself to help people to understand what is in this collection, how it came to be, and how it was intended to be used.

PRRT&HS has had the most recent version of Chris' chronology on our website since 2004 and we continue in that vein..

To this, PRRT&HS has added a Fast Global search facility that will allow a reader to perform complex searches for text from the entire collection in just a few seconds that would have taken as long as 30 minutes or more if done in conventional search methods. This adds greatly to the functionality of this great work and is something you will only find here on the PRRT&HS website for free downloading and viewing as Chris would have wanted. We are offering it in two forms:

1. File-by-file for those who have a limited amount of space on local storage and know the time period(s) in which they have an interest, or
2. A single ZIP file containing the whole chronology (also as single files), together with the Fast Global Search facility, ready to be downloaded and unzipped to folder of your own choice.

Click on the button below to learn more about the Chronology and then download it for free in either form.

The Digital Keystone Collection

You've heard about it. Some of you have seen it run at the annual meeting, and some of you have actually gotten to put your hands on it.

Now, it can finally be your own!

The Digital Keystone Collection, containing all 228 issues from Volume 1, Number 1 (April 1968) through Volume 57, Number 4 (Winter 2024) - over 13,000 pages altogether - is now available for members only in the store. Click on the STORE button to go there.

You can read more about it by clicking on the DIGITAL KEYSTONE COLLECTION INFO button.

You can also view an introductory video tutorial by clicking on that button.

Conway Book Is Now Available in the Store

The eagerly-awaited Conway Yard; Keystone of the PRR book is now available in our online store.

Click on the button below to go there now.

2021 - 2022 Keystones In Store Now

The 2021 and 2022 issues of our quarterly publication The Keystone are now available in our Store. Cost is $15 each to the public or $12 each to our members. To get to the store, click on "Store" in our menu above or click here. Members must be logged into the website in order to get the member price.

Preserving the heritage of "The Standard Railroad of the World" for future generations

The Society's mission is to further scholarly learning and interest in the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) and its predecessor companies by stimulating and encouraging the collecting, researching, recording and preserving of all technical, historical and practical information concerning the PRR and to make this information available to interested persons. And to further the accurate modeling of the PRR so that future generations may better appreciate and understand the company.

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