Mary Anne and I years ago were eating breakfast at Karla’s on Mechanic Street in New Hope when someone mentioned “Pauline’s Trestle,” the most famous image of the silent film era. Afterwards, we took a closer look at the curving railroad trestle over Aquetong Creek about a block away, just upstream from the Bucks County Playhouse.
In 1914, as the story goes, young actress Pearl White was tied to the trestle’s tracks as a locomotive came careening down the line, threatening to run her over. It was the most memorable scene in the blockbuster movie serial, “The Perils of Pauline.”