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

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Oh, so you want to get me started reminiscing on the subject of life in the upper Ohio valley(s) back-in-the-day? Remember that's where a lot of us old guys like to visit in our hearts and minds occasionally....
...fair warning....don't get me started....


Ooooppppssss, I think you already did....

[rogruth]

Murph,
Remember that our areas were very similar except my area was not as heavily populated and further down river.
I don't know how far by river but straight line is only about 50 miles (or less).

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph,
Remember that our areas were very similar except my area was not as heavily populated and further down river.
I don't know how far by river but straight line is only about 50 miles (or less).

I'd love to see photos, Roger. Have any?

During those years, I only knew Elyria, Ohio, visiting relatives in the 50's, and Youngstown, for beer during hs days in the 60's.

[rogruth]

Murph,
Remember that our areas were very similar except my area was not as heavily populated and further down river.
I don't know how far by river but straight line is only about 50 miles (or less).

I'd love to see photos, Roger. Have any?

During those years, I only knew Elyria, Ohio, visiting relatives in the 50's, and Youngstown, for beer during hs days in the 60's.

No I don't but just change some of the names in McKeesport.
You might try Bellaire Ohio on facebook. No , between Bellaire and Ohio.
Many, many photos there but I don't know how to connect to them.

[John Webster]

A few words about this picture:


The title includes No. 4 Plane. Could that be one of the inclined planes of the Alleghany Portage Railroad which ran from Hollidaysburg to Johnstown from 1834 to 1852? Visible in the distance on the right is what looks like one of the head houses which contained stationary steam engines that drove the lifting cable. The pair of tracks that run up the inclined plane have what look like idler wheels between the rails and what could be the shadow of the cable. There don't appear to be any ties which would be consistent with the Portage RR as the rails were laid on square stone blocks. The Portage RR was abandoned in 1852 after the PRR completed the line from Altoona around The Great Horseshoe Curve of the Pennsylvania Railroad and through the Gallitzin Tunnels. I am unaware of any photographs of the Portage RR in use.

Note the gang of men pushing a car in the center of the photo.

Superb find Rufus.

[Mitch]

I don't think it's any of the Portage inclined planes. The fact that it says D & H inclined plane #4 would indicate the Delaware & Hudson RR and most likely their mine. It's plausible that the mine was below grade and they needed a way to get product up to the main line.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I don't think it's any of the Portage inclined planes. The fact that it says D & H inclined plane #4 would indicate the Delaware & Hudson RR and most likely their mine. It's plausible that the mine was below grade and they needed a way to get product up to the main line.

Indeed. If you go back to my original post, I did identify the location as being in Jermyn, Pa. That's North of Scranton.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Excavating in Chambersburg for the Western Maryland ~1880's

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Hey Rufus, Is your latest avatar image Tim Berners-Lee, the fellow who made the Internet into the user-friendly World Wide Web ?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Hey Rufus, Is your latest avatar image Tim Berners-Lee, the fellow who made the Internet into the user-friendly World Wide Web ?

No.

Suggest that you Google the quote in my signature line; all too frequently the answers reside therein.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Not sure when or where this was taken - posed photo since it appears that the main side rod is missing,

[rogruth]

Rufus,
Is that the one that is on display?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus,
Is that the one that is on display?

Yes. Currently at the B&O Museum in Baltimore.

[rogruth]

Rufus,
Is that the one that is on display?

Yes. Currently at the B&O Museum in Baltimore.

Do you have any idea why it is there and not in the RRM of Pa?