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

[J. S. Bach]

There is a sign on the "bench(?)" by the right-most lower window, can you enlarge it so that it can be read? Maybe it says something like "OPENING SOON" or "DO NOT SIT HERE".

[Rufus T. Firefly]

There is a sign on the "bench(?)" by the right-most lower window, can you enlarge it so that it can be read? Maybe it says something like "OPENING SOON" or "DO NOT SIT HERE".

Top 1/2 - 2 lines looks like "Washington Hotel" - can't make out the lower 1/2

[rogruth]

That does seem rather odd.
I would think at least one smarty pants would sneak in.
Today we would just say it was photo-shopped but probably not then.

There does seem to be a trolley line down the middle of the street.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Apparently it was demolished about 15-16 years ago.......

[rogruth]

Apparently it was demolished about 15-16 years ago.......

That's too bad. Probably easier to tear it down and build a new building than to modernize a beautiful building from the past.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Apparently it was demolished about 15-16 years ago.......

That's too bad. Probably easier to tear it down and build a new building than to modernize a beautiful building from the past.

I managed to find some information that implied that there were serious asbestos issues.............and that tearing it down was itself non-trivial.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Off to Dillsburg...........

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wow, so nice, in so many ways: the little gate between two of the buildings; the canopy over the sidewalk, the elevated entrance to the hotel; shutters; saplings; vertical posts (for tying-up horses?) at curbside; wonderful roof's edge fretwork; sloped doors to the cellar entrance; the appearance of shorter, more residential-looking buildings immediately next to the hotel. A feast for the eye.
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A feast for the eye.

That it is - looks like there's also some sort of railing above that alley way between the hotel and the PO. Balcony or connecting walkway?

Lots of good detail there!!!

[rex desilets]

I must say, looking at Rufus' wonderful photos, that I almost regret abandoning TOC modeling in HO when I switched to O scale and humongous locomotives.

[Wolf]

Ok, I'll admit it , I have not ever heard the acronym "TOC" used before applied
to model RRing. What, pray tell, might that be? Terrain-Oriented Contouring???
Train-Originated Concussion??

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Ok, I'll admit it , I have not ever heard the acronym "TOC" used before applied
to model RRing. What, pray tell, might that be? Terrain-Oriented Contouring???
Train-Originated Concussion??

It might be Turn Of the Century........

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Still in Dillsburg........

[rex desilets]

Ok, I'll admit it , I have not ever heard the acronym "TOC" used before applied
to model RRing. What, pray tell, might that be? Terrain-Oriented Contouring???
Train-Originated Concussion??

Our secret code word. Modeling railroading before the Turn Of the Century (20th, that is). Small engines, short cars (well, Pullman Palace cars excepted) that look better on short curves along with right-of-way structures, etc that have a charm all their own.
Unfortunately, an area largely ignored by the O scale community, Rufus excepted.

[Wolf]

Ok, that makes perfect sense, Thank you both for enlightening me.