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

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Rufus, Your "birdseye panoramic" of Northumberland seems to feature a long covered-bridge (?) If I recall correctly, Pennsylvania had plenty of them, back-in-the-days of old (which reminds me of a favorite movie, "Bridges of Madison County.".

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus, Your "birdseye panoramic" of Northumberland seems to feature a long covered-bridge (?) If I recall correctly, Pennsylvania had plenty of them, back-in-the-days of old (which reminds me of a favorite movie, "Bridges of Madison County.".

It do, don't it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Railroad Cut Near Northumberland, PA

[Rufus T. Firefly]

View from Front St., Northumberland

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Railroad Cut Near Northumberland, PA
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When I see "cuts" like that, I am reminded of the old expression, "Not a Chinaman's chance..." which I believe was prompted by the railroads using Chinese labor to helped dig the hillsides and insert dynamite to blast the way through ; however, some bosses would set the dynamite off before the Chinese, in their little baskets, dangling from ropes affixed above the cliff-sides, got all the way clear. Not nice.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Over to Tuscarora at the tracks down by the river.....

[rogruth]

That sight is pretty rare today, I think. Four tacks all parallel along a river.

[up148]

Yeah and very rare because the right of way looks exceptionally clean, the river unpolluted and the trees and landscape just look pristine. Very beautiful photo of a time gone by. How'd you like to be sitting on the forefront hillside seeing and approaching steam locomotives in the distance. Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. The would be grand.

Butch

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Other direction..........

[MurphOnMillerAve]

You make good points, Butch, and have made me notice there is an amazing absence of litter, esp. plastic cups, bottles, and styrofoam packaging floating and blowing all around, as well as a total absence of graffiti in these latest photos provided by Rufus. (I wonder who started all that mess.) I wonder, also, if places like Canada, Sweden, France, Egypt, New Zealand, and Japan have such scourges?

[up148]

Awesome! For a few minutes it makes me feel almost like a kid again. Great photos Martin.

Butch

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Awesome! For a few minutes it makes me feel almost like a kid again. Great photos Martin.

Butch

Only credit I can take is locating old real picture post cards and posting up here. If I could get into Photobucket now, I'd have another view - seems like a photographer camped out and took a set from this side of the river up on hill...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A middle view..........

[Mitch]

You make good points, Butch, and have made me notice there is an amazing absence of litter, esp. plastic cups, bottles, and styrofoam packaging floating and blowing all around, as well as a total absence of graffiti in these latest photos provided by Rufus. I wonder, also, if places like Canada,

Can't speak for those other countries, Murph, but I've driven tractor-trailers all over 6 different provinces of Canada, including Prince Edward Island, and I can tell you that they do not litter their own country. The only place I've ever seen litter along their roadways, is between Buffalo, N.Y. to about Hamilton on the Queen Elizabeth Way, and from the Ambassador Bridge (from Detroit) toward London, and that highway garbage was most likely thrown there by American slobs going somewhere in Ontario.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...... there is an amazing absence of litter, esp. plastic cups, bottles, and styrofoam packaging floating and blowing all around, as well as a total absence of graffiti in these latest photos provided by Rufus. (I wonder who started all that mess.)

100 years ago none of that stuff existed. The world was not dominated by a disposable existence and everything was reused as a matter of course. Bottles were 5 cents deposit when I was a lad. That disconnection to a tangible value may have some impact on why everything became disposable and then why so much was not worth the time to get up and walk over to a trash can and put it in its proper place. People stopped caring and decided that it just did not matter and for that matter what's a little more in our environment anyway...the world can absorb more trash and rubbish and why should I care, etc......

Graffiti has been around as long as man has been able to express himself graphically.

Those photos were also out in what is still something closer to nowhere than the majority of people will ever experience. But even then the people that lived there bothered to pick up after themselves.

Sadly, that's not been true for many, many years. People stopped caring.