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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It's interesting that the "headlights" are on swivel-mounts, while still having carriage lights as well.

Given the qualities of road then, some big, gimbals mounted lanterns might be pretty useful at night.

Went through a couple of fairly reliable old car sites I occasionally reference, but saw nothing by Cadillac that was similar. It's entirely possible the body was built by a third-party, with just the frame/engine/engine-enclosure supplied by Cadillac.

Entirely probable that the back 2/3's of it was custom finished.

[J. S. Bach]

That was shot on some interurban line.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[healey36]

Yeah, what is that pump-like apparatus directly below the cab?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yeah, what is that pump-like apparatus directly below the cab?

Brake cylinder?

[rogruth]

Yeah, what is that pump-like apparatus directly below the cab?

I think that is a water pump from the tender to the boiler.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[healey36]

Not much in the way of level-grade crossing warning at that location. It would be interesting to know the year of the shot...guessing early 20th century.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Not much in the way of level-grade crossing warning at that location. It would be interesting to know the year of the shot...guessing early 20th century.

Supposedly ~1910.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

I don't know what make of autos those are but the folks riding in them certainly look as if they came from the right side of the tracks.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I don't know what make of autos those are but the folks riding in them certainly look as if they came from the right side of the tracks.

One to the right is a Ford; card was described as 2 families in Fords.

[rogruth]

I don't know what make of autos those are but the folks riding in them certainly look as if they came from the right side of the tracks.

One to the right is a Ford; card was described as 2 families in Fords.

Even though Mr. Ford said his cars were cheap, and they were compared to others, they were still luxuries to those making a dollar a day in the mines and mills. I do think Mr. Ford did help change things. In our well delineated neighborhood of @ 300 houses/families in the 1940s there were less than 25 vehicles. There was a good street car line that became a bue line in the mid 1940s and people also did not seem to mind walking.

[Rufus T. Firefly]