The Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railway was formed when the "Philadelphia and Reading Railway" took control of the South Mountain Railroad and on May 22, 1891, the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad (the G & H RR superintendent, W. H. Woodward, was retained).[6] On May 18, 1897, on the north side of the railroad’s station at Gettysburg, the "Philadelphia and Reading Railway " had finished another siding across Washington St.[7] By 1904, the Gettysburg yards had 5 sidings, including 3 over Washington St and 1 toward Pennsylvania College's Glatfelter Hall. Attached to the Washington St siding south of the station was the sole westward siding[8] to the turntable and the roundhouse, which was on the northeast corner of the crossing.[9] The crossing was the site of a 1909 Philadelphia and Reading Railway and Western Maryland collision of freight trains.[10]
One of the railroad’s last excursion trains was a May 7, 1939, Reading Co. train with 400 from Philadelphia over the Round Top Branch.[14] Except for special occasions, e.g., Bethlehem students in 1958,[15] Reading Co. passenger service to Gettysburg ceased in 1941;[16] and a 1942 application was made to abandon nearly the entire Round Top Branch.[17] The station was repainted in 1946,[18] and the turntable and 3-engine[19]roundhouse[20] had been removed before 1970.[specify] The Gettysburg spur south of the east-west Western Maryland RR crossing and that had been part of the Round Top Branch remained until at least 1962.[21]
^"Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad". Gettysburg Compiler. December 19, 1883. Retrieved 2011-05-12 – via Google News Archive. The round-house lot is being graded and the surplus earth hauled across the "Tapeworm" on[to] the Mumper lot, thus making a commencement for the Round-Top branch.
^"Collision". Gettysburg Compiler. May 10, 1892. Retrieved 2011-07-17 – via Google News Archive. Improvements.--The two buildings adjoining the W. M. R. R. depot have been joined and fixed up to form an office of Mr. S. J. Diller's livery.
^"Seek To Abandon Round Top Branch". February 2, 1942. extending from a point 1,670 feet south of the point where it crosses the Lincoln Highway on Buford avenue to the end of the branch a distance of about 2.492 miles
^"Railroaders Tell About "Early Days"". Gettysburg Times. April 30, 1958. Retrieved 2011-05-12 – via Google News Archives. The G and H had a three-engine round house in the yards