Round Top Station was the southernmost station

Train station

A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

 of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad

Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad

The Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad was a railway line of Pennsylvania from Hunter's Run southward to Gettysburg in the 19th century. The north junction was with the South Mountain RR, and a crossing with the Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad's westward extension was at Gettysburg...

 and was located west of a blacksmith shop along the Taneytown Road that was in operation in 1880.http://www.landisvalleymuseum.org/tour_bs.htm

History

Despite the 1882 survey of a rail route from the "H. J., H. and G. Railroad

Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad

The Hanover Junction, Hanover and Gettysburg Railroad was a railroad line in Pennsylvania in the 19th century. The 38 mile main line ran from Orrtanna to Hanover Junction where it connected with the Northern Central Railway...

" to Round Top, Pennsylvania

Round Top, Pennsylvania

Round Top, Pennsylvania, is a populated place near Little Round Top that is notable for 2 Battle of Gettysburg field hospitals, the 1884 Round Top Station, and several battlefield commemorative era attractions for tourists...

, for the Round-Top Railroad Company, the competing G&H RR purchased property from Lewis A. Bushman in April 1884 for excursions (Little Round Top Park), and their Round Top Branch

Round Top Branch

The Round Top Branch was an extension of the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad from the Gettysburg borough across the Gettysburg Battlefield to Round Top, Pennsylvania...

 was instead being constructed in May 1884.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_VMmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JgAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1507,753004&dq=round-top-branch&hl=en The station warehouse was completed June 21, 1884 (burned February 22/23, 1889;http://www.google.com/search?q=Bushman+fire+1889+%22round+top%22&tbs=nws:1,ar:1&source=newspapers rebuilt by August 1891); and to the rear of the warehousehttp://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0XEmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ff8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4952,111837&dq=trolley+1894+gettysburg&hl=en in 1894 on a different railway from the west, the Gettysburg Electric Railway

Gettysburg Electric Railway

The Gettysburg Electric Railway was a borough trolley that provided summer access to Gettysburg Battlefield visitor attractions such as military engagement areas, monuments, postbellum camps, and recreation areas...

 began trolley operations The railroad-owned property along the north side of Wheatfield Rd extended eastward from the railway and had frontage along the Taneytown Rd at the corner, site of the 1895 Ollie Rouzer blacksmith shop.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=gGgmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nv8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2262,322729&dq=rosensteel+round-top&hl=en The north-south steamtrain railbed at Round Top became the east edge of the Gettysburg National Military Park

Gettysburg National Military Park

The Gettysburg National Military Park is an administrative unit of the National Park Service's northeast region and a subunit of federal properties of Adams County, Pennsylvania, with the same name, including the Gettysburg National Cemetery...

(GNMP), which is adjacent to the private tracts along the Taneytown Road; and between 1904 and 1916 a siding was created at the station. The station operated until when the branch's abandonment application was filed.http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=7_FrD3gH8REC&dat=19420202&printsec=frontpage

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