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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

This Sister was particularly good at running the bases after a good hit, and did so in the exact habit you can see here.

Might have made sliding into 2nd high to take out the person covering 2nd from making the throw to 1st,

I realize you are being jocular (and I think I would have paid money out of my allowance to see what you mentioned happen!!!!) but to be literal about such a phenomenon, I remember her running a lot, from base to base, and I recall the other Sisters cheering for her with considerable glee and enjoyment, but I do not recall any sliding into bases.

Would have been interesting to see her emulate Ty Cobb...

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Might have made sliding into 2nd high to take out the person covering 2nd from making the throw to 1st,

I realize you are being jocular (and I think I would have paid money out of my allowance to see what you mentioned happen!!!!) but to be literal about such a phenomenon, I remember her running a lot, from base to base, and I recall the other Sisters cheering for her with considerable glee and enjoyment, but I do not recall any sliding into bases.

Would have been interesting to see her emulate Ty Cobb...

I don't want to continue too much further with this drift, but let me just add, if you please, that we students, and my parents, too, were well aware of how regimented every day - every hour during the day - was for those Sisters. So, their being invited to spend a whole day, at the close of the school-year, picnicking and playing softball , was a real treat for them. They adored my father. And I have the distinct memory (of course) of the entire convent attending my father's funeral, with several of them crying (something never seen in public) during the final viewing and Funeral Mass. That meant a great deal to us, my mother and me.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I realize you are being jocular (and I think I would have paid money out of my allowance to see what you mentioned happen!!!!) but to be literal about such a phenomenon, I remember her running a lot, from base to base, and I recall the other Sisters cheering for her with considerable glee and enjoyment, but I do not recall any sliding into bases.

Would have been interesting to see her emulate Ty Cobb...

I don't want to continue too much further with this drift, but let me just add, if you please, that we students, and my parents, too, were well aware of how regimented every day - every hour during the day - was for those Sisters.

They make an interesting hard choice.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Would have been interesting to see her emulate Ty Cobb...

I don't want to continue too much further with this drift, but let me just add, if you please, that we students, and my parents, too, were well aware of how regimented every day - every hour during the day - was for those Sisters.

They make an interesting hard choice.

Now, as an adult, I am not sure how they put themselves through all that, though I well understand the dogma and devotion behind it all. The Church has changed a great deal since Vatican II, which has changed the appearance of their habits as well as their daily rituals and obligations, all of which seems to have resulted in a steady diminution in the number of novices and postulants entering such convents, but I am sure glad they were all part of who I am.

Thank you for allowing me to talk a little bit about this here within your very pleasant thread, Rufus.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Thank you for allowing me to talk a little bit about this here within your very pleasant thread, Rufus.

Carry on...... As you were.....

More tomorrow, probably.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[J. S. Bach]

What a huge firebox (Wooten?) for such a relatively small engine.

[rogruth]

The reason for the camelback cab.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What a huge firebox (Wooten?) for such a relatively small engine.

Indeed, but an engine that I would actually consider were it to be on the 3rd Rail list of possibilities......

[Rufus T. Firefly]

On the square in Chambersburg mobilizing for WW1

[Roy]

Rufus, here's a little nicer version of your camelback Consolidation:



Frankly, I wouldn't think this to be too difficult to scratch build.

[rogruth]

The square at Chambersburg must have had a lot of street car traffic in all directions.
Look at those tracks! Oh. I assumed streetcar.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus, here's a little nicer version of your camelback Consolidation:
Frankly, I wouldn't think this to be too difficult to scratch build.

Possible to start with some available bits and bash. Really serves though as a reminder that camelbacks came in all sorts of wheel arrangments beyond 4-6-0,

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The square at Chambersburg must have had a lot of street car traffic in all directions.
Look at those tracks! Oh. I assumed streetcar.

Yes, CG&W, C&W, and C&S all converged in Chambersburg - nice streetcar right there by the fountain, too.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Central Banking Co, Mount Union, PA