A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...complete with the "Widow's Cupola" up there in its customary place. Nice.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...complete with the "Widow's Cupola" up there in its customary place. Nice.

Big place - 4 floors up and looks to be one down walk out the back.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Reitztown, PA

[J. S. Bach]

...snip... Each bridge section has a bit of a "hump" to it. ...snip...

Camber. It strengthens the structure.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...snip... Each bridge section has a bit of a "hump" to it. ...snip...

Camber. It strengthens the structure.

Indeed and the word that I could not find. Modeling that detail............hmmmm...........probably not any time soon,

[chuck]

It was the fourth bridge over the Juniata at Port Royal

The fourth bridge was built by the county in 1892 at a cost of $16,500.00. The contractor was W. F. Goodman. This was a wooden covered bridge about 700 feet long. The piers were built of native stone with a concrete core, and the superstructure of timbers from the mountain. This bridge served the traveling public for a period of 45 years. On March 18, 1936, at four o'clock in the afternoon the St. Patrick's Day Flood destroyed it. The last person to cross the bridge in a car was Mr. S. G. Bashore, of Port Royal.

Link to full article

http://portroyal200.com/view.php?id=63





1936, day of the flood

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

I like the cross arms on the pole.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I like the cross arms on the pole.

It's a nice detail!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[healey36]

Interesting that at a time when a fastball was running tops 75 mph or so, the catcher still wore all of that gear. I can't imagine trying to catch one of today's psychos, winging it in there at 95-plus mph, some occasionally exceeding 100 mph. In college I recall having to catch a couple guys that routinely hit the mid-eighties...even that was scary.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Interesting that at a time when a fastball was running tops 75 mph or so, the catcher still wore all of that gear.

He might have been protecting himself from what was a more aggressive incoming player from 3rd base back then......

[rogruth]

My grandfather (whom I lived with or with whom I lived), father-in-law and brother-in-law were all catchers.
Always sort of thought that affected their personalities.

[Rufus T. Firefly]