OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society

    Chapter Meeting – June 25, 2022 @1:00PM The Philadelphia Chapter will be holding the June 25, 2022 meeting in-person at Drexel Hill United Methodist Church (600 Burmont Road / Drexel Hill, PA 19026). The meeting will be simulcast on the Zoom meeting service. Business Meeting 1-2PMFilm Presentation 2PM The film is the 1957 production TRAINS…

  • Railroads on Parade

    The Oliver Evans Chapter presentsA virtual Zoom presentation by Joel Spivak, OE Acting PresidentWednesday, June 29, 2022  7 pm Joel Spivak’s Power point presentation brings together two of his favorite subjects, Railroads and Worlds Fairs and Expositions. See how the railroad was presented to the public at the 1851 “Great Exhibition of the Works of…

  • Roebling Museum Roadtrip Virtual Lecture

    How did Roebling help build the New York State Pavilion? June 16, 2022 at 6pm Did you know that the iconic NY State Pavilion at the NY World’s Fair was made using Roebling Wire Rope? Salmaan Khan and Aaron Asis of People for the Pavilion will be joined by Justin Rivers of Untapped Cities to…

  • OE Railroad Prototype Modelers

    Two of our Oliver Evans chapter members attended the modelers convention at Malvern, March 24 to 27, 2022. Here are their thoughts on their attendance at the meeting and their involvement with railroad modeling. The Railroad Prototype Modelers (“RPM”) Valley Forge is a biennial gathering of model railroaders concerned with accurately depicting railroad equipment, structures,…

  • AECOM’s I-95 Archaeology Center Tour

    Saturday, April 9, 2022, 18 OE Chapter members visited the center and were treated to a thorough presentation on work at the lab and on material recovered from the excavations along I-95.  There are a number of exhibit cases displaying artifacts representing previous houses and factories in the area.  The Penn Treaty Museum is housed…

  • EAST BROADTOP RAILROAD: REVIVAL OF A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK

    Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 7:00 – 8:00 pm E.S.T. Join us to ride the rails (via webinar) and learn about the East Broad Top Railroad (Rockhill Furnace, Huntingdon County). Once called “the dormant gem of railway preservation,” the EBT RR is a rare narrow-gauge railway and time capsule of industrial technology. After many years of…

  • A River Runs Through It

    A Webinar Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Fairmount Water Works Thursday, May 12, 2022 12:00pm – 1:00pm The Fairmount Water Works are one of Philadelphia’s most iconic sites, yet the least understood by locals. It’s even harder for out of towners to comprehend its significance when you tell them “you MUST visit our old municipal water…

  • Northeast Philadelphia History Fair

    Presented by the Friends of Northeast Philadelphia History Saturday, April 30, 202210:00am to 3:00pm Free admission, All are Welcome  There will be over thirty presenters – local historical societies, historical organizations, museums, authors, and others – offering displays and a wide range of historical books, photos, maps, prints, and memorabilia. And there will be two…

  • Wayne Junction Walking Tour

    The Preservation Alliance For Greater Philadelphiapresents A Special Architecture Walking Tour The Wayne Junction Historic District, bordering lower Germantown and upper Nicetown, was once a bustling Philadelphia industrial center known as “Workshop of the World.” In the later decades of the 1900s, Wayne Junction experienced disinvestment and decline as manufacturing moved elsewhere, leaving many of…

  • Roebling Museum Roadtrip

    C.C. Sunderland and innovations in 20th century bridge construction April 6, 2022 6pm Join us as Dario Gasparini shares his research into construction technologies for suspension bridges with a focus on C. C. Sunderland, Chief Engineer for the John A. Roebling Son’s Company. He will discuss construction of suspension bridge cables, the development of new…