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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wonder why the one guy has on a tie? With a stickpin in it?

Conductor?

I wouldn't want to mess with that crew.

Hard men, doing a hard job, in hard times.... What some like to refer to as "the good old days"......

[rogruth]

Could be. Looks sort of young to be a conductor in those times when you worked your way up.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Could be. Looks sort of young to be a conductor in those times when you worked your way up.

Perhaps....he and another have a badge of some sort on their caps.

I have to look up just what engine #11 was on the CVRR and get some idea of what time period this might reside within.

[rogruth]

Looks like an 0-6-0.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Looks like an 0-6-0.

#11 was indeed an 0-6-0 - a Rogers built PRR class B-2 odd built in 1891, transferred to the PRR in 1920 where it was renumbered 3779 - do not have any info after that - probably available in the PRR records.

[J. S. Bach]

So, Rufus, what happened to the dude standing on the footboard? You did not blow him up like the others. I wanted to see the badge on Johny Reb's hat.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

So, Rufus, what happened to the dude standing on the footboard? You did not blow him up like the others. I wanted to see the badge on Johny Reb's hat.

Must have dropped him off somewhere..... Johny Reb???? Don't think so.... He is another ray of sunshine though...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And, here's the CVRR station in Mechanicsburg again but a different view........and a different era.....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Springs in Upper Strasburg

[John Webster]

Given that it's an 0-6-0 with a slope back tender it's probably a yard switcher. The oil headlight dates the picture to most likely pre 1910 though 1916 is possible.

The gent with the stickpin is probably the conductor and spent a lot of time with a fist full of paper walking and reading car numbers. Holding the oilcan as a badge of office is the engineer, the fireman is the other guy in overalls sitting on the walkway. Both of those would have been fairly tough jobs. The other two guys are brakemen who would have spent most of their time on the ground throwing switches and hooking up glad hands when they weren't climbing the cars to set brakes.

Roger is right, they would have been a tough bunch.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Lincoln Way east of Chambersburg in Caledonia......what is now know as Route 30.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Soooo interesting to see that and be able to appreciate the change to how it is today. Very interesting.
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Soooo interesting to see that and be able to appreciate the change to how it is today. Very interesting.
Murph

I will see about posting some views of The Inn. The are 2 other cards adjacent in this series you might find useful.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hey, Murph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are 3 more Laughlin cards in that number range that feature the Inn in Caledonia Park along the Lincoln Hwy (Rt. 30):

[MurphOnMillerAve]

WOW, what wonderful windows into the past. Very nostalgic. One can almost feel the rural atmosphere present, of a time long gone by..
Murph