A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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Sort of what it was like yesterday with the snow blower in deeper than the snow.....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Those two steam-shovel photos are very interesting, esp. since they are showing something I never could have imagined. Never.
Now, I can.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Northumberland Railroad Yards..........

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Saved this one for Murph..........

[rogruth]

I have not seen cars quite like that before.
They seem to be similar to some used at copper mines in Arizona and New Mexico.
I wonder how much filling was done? Quite a lot I would think.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I have not seen cars quite like that before.
They seem to be similar to some used at copper mines in Arizona and New Mexico.
I wonder how much filling was done? Quite a lot I would think.

I think that Grandt Line sells a kit for those cars or at least something of that ilk.

I actually find just about everything else in that last photo card to be interesting; the trestle system of rough cut logs, the boy and father in the corn field with the wagon....and I wonder what the story was here and whose carn filed was getting filled in and why.......a moment in time captured to ponder and reflect on.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Saved this one for Murph..........
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Thanks! But if we modeled that whole scene, who would believe it?

[Nev]

Many years ago when I also had a narrow gauge line on the Railroad I built a few of those Grandt line hoppers they were not a five minute build.
Nev.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Saved this one for Murph..........
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Thanks! But if we modeled that whole scene, who would believe it?

You have a great photo to back you up. Folks that argue against reality are not worth your time or worries.........
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[Rufus T. Firefly]

Many years ago when I also had a narrow gauge line on the Railroad I built a few of those Grandt line hoppers they were not a five minute build.Nev.

Yhey are troublesome little buggers - but, not a link & pin coupler!

Oh tempora! O mores!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Back to Northumberland with a birdseye panoramic.......

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Queen St in Northumberland.......~1910

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Many years ago when I also had a narrow gauge line on the Railroad I built a few of those Grandt line hoppers they were not a five minute build.
Nev.

I think that little car looks very sharp. And the fact that you made it with your own hands makes it that much more attractive and interesting. What motivated you to not weather it? Even if a hobbyist parked a few of them, seemingly abandoned, on an old siding back inside some part of a forest, they would look good and have a perfect reason for, perhaps, not traveling the layout, but looking good as detail on it. I can just imagine a short consist of several of them situated that way. What have you done with them since making them, Nev?
Murph