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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Note the company houses of the Leith Coke works card - facing the tracks neatly aligned.....

[rex desilets]

...and imagine the joy of living across from coke ovens.

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...and imagine the joy of living across from coke ovens.

Indeed. With all those tracks in between, too.

But, I might imagine the alternate choices were limited and that having a job might have been a decisive variable.

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John Johnson's Store in Franklin, Pa

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Interesting name for a steam engine - Frankenstein

[Wolf]

Not really that unusual a name--many locomotives in that era were
named after towns or natural features of the territory they ran through
(or aspired to run through )...Frankenstein Cliffs are a feature in
the Crawford Notch area of New Hampshire, with a Frankenstein .
Both were named for a Godfry Nicholas Frankenstein, who was
a noted scenic painter who painted the cliff and Dry River starting
in 1847, and one painting was used by the P&O in its advertising
to promote passenger service to this scenic area. Line went
bankrupt in 1888, was leased by the Maine Central, and was later
bought in 1943. Was the Mountain Division of the MEC.
Trestle still in service today on the Conway Scenic Railroad.

Guess that is one more advantage to having in-laws in NH
near enough to make it a day trip to ride the CSRR

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Not really that unusual a name--many locomotives in that era were
named after towns or natural features of the territory they ran through
(or aspired to run through )...Frankenstein Cliffs are a feature in
the Crawford Notch area of New Hampshire, with a Frankenstein .
Both were named for a Godfry Nicholas Frankenstein, who was
a noted scenic painter who painted the cliff and Dry River starting
in 1847, and one painting was used by the P&O in its advertising
to promote passenger service to this scenic area. Line went
bankrupt in 1888, was leased by the Maine Central, and was later
bought in 1943. Was the Mountain Division of the MEC.
Trestle still in service today on the Conway Scenic Railroad.

As I stated, it is an interesting name. What, no Frederick,

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The Indiana......in 1898

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Down in Snake Hollow.........

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I wonder how they managed not to have drilled down to the same level of oil, drawing on the same "pool". I never imagined there were that many individual oil derricks (if that's what they are called) in the same place in Pennsylvania. Each well would, likely, be a different owner, right? The overall amount of oil and gas is no surprise, though, given the Cambrian, Upper Devonian, Mississippian sandstone reservoirs of the state.

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I wonder how they managed not to have drilled down to the same level of oil, drawing on the same "pool".

I'm pretty sure that they did draw from the same pool/source and getting as many pumping as possible was done to enhance production and extraction. Every plot of land that could be used and owned was in use.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I wonder how they managed not to have drilled down to the same level of oil, drawing on the same "pool".

I'm pretty sure that they did draw from the same pool/source and getting as many pumping as possible was done to enhance production and extraction. Every plot of land that could be used and owned was in use.

They are not there now, Id imagine. Do you suppose the pools got exhausted? Long tome ago, I remember finding myself in the neighborhood of the Drake well in Venango County. That was an interesting moment, considering its historical importance.

I believe, having heard it somewhere along the way, that the discovery of such oil resources just about put the whaling industry out of business very quickly.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wonder how they managed not to have drilled down to the same level of oil, drawing on the same "pool".

I'm pretty sure that they did draw from the same pool/source and getting as many pumping as possible was done to enhance production and extraction. Every plot of land that could be used and owned was in use.

They are not there now, Id imagine. Do you suppose the pools got exhausted? Long tome ago, I remember finding myself in the neighborhood of the Drake well in Venango County. That was an interesting moment, considering its historical importance.

I seem to recall that there remains some but not worth the cost of extraction.

I believe, having heard it somewhere along the way, that the discovery of such oil resources just about put the whaling industry out of business very quickly.

Something cheaper and more abundant tends to close out and down the previous state of the art....things move forward.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...Like ballpoint pens abruptly replacing mostly using pencils and using metal-tipped, wood-handled "quills" or "Dip Pens" we used to dip into little bottles of black ink that sat in their own holes in our wooden school desks, when I was a boy. I can still recall the very day a classmate brought the first one we ever saw onto the playground. When he held his new Papermate up and clicked its special feature, we laughed at him, calling him an idiot and a baby, thinking he was holding up a toy rocketship. He then said to us, "No, you are the idiots. This is a pen!" And he showed us how it could extend its ballpoint out its bottom and write. (Forgive me if my telling this story is a repeat for any of you.)The reaction was immediate. We all, in one unanimous voice, yelled out, "WWWAAAAHHHOOOO" and rushedas a group to the local candystore where he had bought his pen and wiped out every one they had in-stock. Even Sister Agnes didn't know what hit her at first when we went back to the classrooms and clicked away, Click, click , click,, write write write... Smile smile smile. The bottles are gone; the ballpoints (and other versions) are here. Fountain pens have held their own, though. What's next?