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

[rogruth]

Do I see a copyright date of 1923?
That may be a first in these postings.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Do I see a copyright date of 1923?
That may be a first in these postings.

I don't think that 's a date - there is a circled "c". But the number is the elevation - 2123'

[rogruth]

OK. Once again I will blame my eyes.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

Interesting structure. I wonder what the purpose of the left end L shape is?
A switch-back for the mine cars maybe?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

A spectacular shot! Can you imagine the sounds of it all!

[rogruth]

I don't think most modelers realize how typical that is of branch line passenger trains.
Probably typical of the CV also.

[rex desilets]

Interesting structure. I wonder what the purpose of the left end L shape is?
A switch-back for the mine cars maybe?

My guess is a lead to a dump for mine tailings. If so, the most complex/largest I've ever seen.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I don't think most modelers realize how typical that is of branch line passenger trains.
Probably typical of the CV also.

I didn't know what they were called (thank you for naming it), but I have one on the layout, which I have had running around for some time. I'm not sure where I got the notion from for so short a train, though I may have seen them scooting thru McKeesport, PA, as a boy.

Here's mine in a few layout shots, consisting of a metal-sided coach, an older brown coach, and often a milkcar, and a sortof baggage-mail car, another idea for a consist I had no facts to back up but liked the look of .....

[sleepmac]

Murph, your railroad looks like FUN!

Dan Weinhold
Lancaster, PA

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thank you, Sleepmac/Dan Weinhold. I appreciate your saying something about the parts of the layout seen above. And it is interesting, to me, that you chose to use the word, fun" to describe the layout because that is what I have had, all along, in crafting it. Also, I tried my best to make it something that others might have fun seeing. Thus, features like the "Community Parade" making its way down the village street, which you can glimpse in the bottom two photos, was designed to provide some smiles. The parade was, also, in particular, my excuse for utilizing many of the models and toys I had purchased at train shows knowing full well they had no likely place on such a layout. However, a parade gave me excuses for including such things as that stagecoach and some older vehicles that were out of the general circa I was suggesting with the modeling of the layout overall. I tried to be as realistic as possible but refused to abandon a sense of whimsy, as well.

Thanks again for talking the time and having the interest in commenting.
Murph

[rogruth]

Murph,
As I repeat myself again, it is always great to see your layout and the many things on it. They cannot be seen in one viewing.

Regarding short passenger trains in your home area; commuter trains. I know that the PRR ran trains to Steubenville several times a day.
I don't recall the scheduling. I think the B&O and the P&LE also ran some commuters. Maybe others also.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph,
As I repeat myself again, it is always great to see your layout and the many things on it. They cannot be seen in one viewing.

Regarding short passenger trains in your home area; commuter trains. I know that the PRR ran trains to Steubenville several times a day.
I don't recall the scheduling. I think the B&O and the P&LE also ran some commuters. Maybe others also.

Thank you, Roger. I appreciate your reply and am glad you still like seeing my photos, even though I know some are repeats for you, by now.

I'm sure you are right about B&O and P&LE commuter trains and perhaps even PRR stopping at the little station in McKeesport, PA, when I was a boy in the 50's. I say that because some of us boys would sneak into the passenger cars while a train was stopped and run through as far as we could get in and out one car or more. I can recall the smell of the wood furnishings (mahogany?) and see its gleam, even still, in my mind's eye. I had the impression that while they were stopped, workers would polish some of the woodwork and sweep the carpeting, but I am not certain of that. Actually, nobody really chased us; we just ran through in excitement and joy at being there (and perhaps "getting away with something" )!!

[Rufus T. Firefly]