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

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The CVRR Station at Mechanicsburg, PA.

Rufus,

Any idea what street that was located on?

Thanks!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The CVRR Station at Mechanicsburg, PA.

Rufus,

Any idea what street that was located on?

Thanks!

From Tony:

Both buildings in the photo are extant and in excellent condition. The station, now a museum, has lost its tower and corresponding roof section. The smaller building is in use, maybe by the C of C and has a historical plaque by its door. Corner of Strawberry and Market Streets. Only one track survives.

Tony

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[rogruth]

Interesting building.
I wonder what the occasion was? Picture taking?

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The Crystal Spring Factory, Smith & Sons, Seelyville, PA around 1910...

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Old Gravity R.R. Car at Hawley, PA ~1940





Gravity is a harsh mistress...........

[rogruth]

I wonder which is the latest photo?
The top one has more wires on the telegraph poles and the car looks painted which proves nothing.

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Old Caboose used by Admiral Perry as House & Kitchen at the Erie Susquehanna PA Depot

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Garage and lodge along the Lincoln Highway near Ligonier, Pa

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Couple of pages back I posted a pair of cards showing the broken dam that caused the flood in 1911. Not much left of Turner St....

[rogruth]

That is for sure!!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Garage and lodge along the Lincoln Highway near Ligonier, Pa...

For some reason, I remember that porch and a knick-knack shop just inside the door of that lodge, having been taken there as a boy with my parents. Lincoln Highway was a favorite haunt of ours during the 40's & 50's.

Also, as a teenager, deliberately marking the closure of our adolescence and the beginning of our respective upcoming experiences in Vietnam or college, circa 1962, my two friends and I took a 40mi. hike from McKeesport, PA on bikes now referred to as "trucks," staying overnight on the ground in the woods of Ligonier. We saw the trip as a sort of "right-of-passage," wondering if we'd ever see each other again. Fortunately, we survived both experiences, my best friend in Nam and I in Ohio academia. I can't even describe to you in words how glad I am that the soldier among us made it back in one piece, safe-&-sound, and is now living a very good life in 84, PA. And frankly, I'm also grateful I behaved and paid attention enough in college to have earned a solid professional life, being productive and contributing my share to society and my church,also, emerging in one piece (though, at some points, I had wondered about the long-term outcome.) Murph

P.S. Perhaps, we have all heard it said that "youth is wasted on the young." Well, I sure did my part to live-it-up as much as I could, when young(er), so my energy was well spent and utilized. That's right where it belonged (though I sure would not mind a bit extra of that power and vigor nowadays, too), filling me with power to explore and venture out, as I forged a life of wonderful memories and productive investment of self.

Whether we stepped forward in our lives as teenagers and early twenty-somethings, hitch-hiking, or riding boxcars, or driving classy sports-cars, investing our powers of being young in good stuff, it seems to me, for many of us, we have won, at life.

[rogruth]

Murph,
Nothing wrong with the above post but I really like the last sentence.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A quick hop over to Shippensburg for a picture of the some of the cast of the 1908 stage production..........