https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8992b286-2e19-45b3-86cb-2c69871b309b Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films! Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Shot by an unknown cameraman, this silent home movie footage (circa 1951) shows Pennsylvania Railroad ferries operating on the Delaware River, with the Benjamin Franklin Bridge (formerly the Delaware River Bridge) in the background. The Pennsylvania had substantial operations on both sides of the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey. This footage was shot from the Philly side of the river, and the large buildings visible in some shots are the RCA Corporation and Campbells Soup plant. The New Jersey terminal was known as the Pennsylvania Railroad Federal Street Ferry Terminal aka Camden Ferry House; it closed in 1952 when ferry service was terminated and was replaced with the NJ State Aquarium. The Philadelphia side building was the Philadelphia Ferry Terminal - Market Street Wharf. At :28 the ferry Haddonfield is shown, followed at 1:45 by the Millville. At 4:31, the tugboat Mercury is shown. The tug is similar to the Jupiter, which remains in Philadelphia to this day, as part of the Penn's Landing exhibits. At 5:37 a B&O Railroad ferry, probably based in Wilmington, moves past carrying rail cars. Another tug the Coontz is seen at 6:10. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxTtCdDR7zg Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:11:01 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8992b286-2e19-45b3-86cb-2c69871b309b All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.