OLIVER EVANS CHAPTER

Author: Muriel K, Veep

  • Model train collection auction

    An Oliver Evans chapter member become aware of this auction which features some model railroad paraphernalia and thought some of our railroaders might be interested. The link features images of the items available in the photo gallery and also in the lot listings. The auction site recommends checking back as they will be adding more…

  • Rebecca Lukens: Founding Mother of Iron and Steel in Coatesville

    Thur July 21st 5:30pm – 7:30pm National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum, 50 S 1st Ave, Coatesville, PA 19320 Celebrate the life and times of Rebecca Lukens, American’s first female industrialist, and her descendants. Although by far not the only woman who managed iron furnaces in the 19th century, Rebecca was the only documented woman…

  • Exhibition on railroads and several online presentations

    Across the Continent. “Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way”, 1868,Frances Flora Bond Palmer, published by Currier & Ives The Grolier Club in New York City has an exhibition “Travelers, Tracks and Tycoons: The Railroad in American Legend and Life” on display through July 30, 2022. The exhibition is from the very extensive Barriger Railroad Collection of…

  • Delaware Valley Shipbuilding

    Center of American  Shipbuilding, Civil War to WWI Thursday, June 30th, 2022 2 p.m. West Deptford Free Public Library Join us at the West Deptford Free Public Library for a lecture presented by Peter Walzer.  Mr. Walzer holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marine Engineering from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. Mr. Walzer was a…

  • 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…