Here is the fourth of 36 plates constituting the "Centennial Album of Pennsylvania R.R. Photos and Prints." It was published in the April 1946 issue of "Railroad" magazine, page 13. Photo Caption: "Cattle Guards. No rural crossing was complete without some protection device to prevent livestock from straying onto the right-of-way. Transverse pits, straddled by the rails, together with outside fencing, discouraged bovine boomers." |