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

[HONDO74]

Picture looks like it was taken on a cold fall day. No leaves on the trees.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

On Rt. 16 between Greencastle and Waynesboro....where the CG & W interchanged with the H & F.............

[Roy]

I not only don't see any pedestrians, but no vehicles. I wonder if the tracks, with their rail heads above grade, deterred traffic?

[rogruth]

Picture looks like it was taken on a cold fall day. No leaves on the trees.

This seems to be typical of many of the photos. Probably so more of the buildings and other features can be seen.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I not only don't see any pedestrians, but no vehicles. I wonder if the tracks, with their rail heads above grade, deterred traffic?

Main road connecting towns with trolley line in parallel. Maybe......but folks obviously lived there and traveled.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Roy]

I not only don't see any pedestrians, but no vehicles. I wonder if the tracks, with their rail heads above grade, deterred traffic?

Main road connecting towns with trolley line in parallel. Maybe......but folks obviously lived there and traveled.

Even today, you'd need a 4WD to deal with that RR track. It's hard to imagine horse-drawn vehicles or early cars crossing that track, except at 90 degrees.

Now, if this was a city, they had plenty of experience building horse car and cable car tracks at grade, to allow for all street traffic.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I not only don't see any pedestrians, but no vehicles. I wonder if the tracks, with their rail heads above grade, deterred traffic?

Main road connecting towns with trolley line in parallel. Maybe......but folks obviously lived there and traveled.

Even today, you'd need a 4WD to deal with that RR track. It's hard to imagine horse-drawn vehicles or early cars crossing that track, except at 90 degrees.

Now, if this was a city, they had plenty of experience building horse car and cable car tracks at grade, to allow for all street traffic.

For all any of us know, there was an at grade crossing just out of the photo that let everyone access to a road/alleyway running behind those houses where most at that time had a carriage house or small barn.

My grandparent's house in Greencastle had at one time the CVRR and the CG&W tracks running right out front of the house, yet they also had the alleyway running behind the house to the barn.

[Wolf]

I would say that there is a grade crossing over the track between the 2nd and 3rd
pole from the camera position...judging from the roadway on the left, the crossing
required is very basic in scope. Most likely it consists of subgrade material piled
up within the gauge to railhead height with approach ramps outside the rails on
each side. I don't see any signs of any wooden planking, but I would not rule that
out. Open-track construction similar to steam railroad construction was used
by trolley lines outside towns as it was cheaper than construction in pavement.
Not to mention there is no pavement on the roadway either!
Nice view of a turn-of-century side-of-road trolley line. Wish it were still around
for us to ride today.

[J. S. Bach]

Why is there a submarine surfacing?

[rex desilets]

Time warp

[HONDO74]

This looks like the approximate location of where the picture was taken.

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[rogruth]

In the original photo there does seem to be a grade crossing as Wolf pointed out.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Marvelous to see both, HONDO. Thanks for that.
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

School in Tyrone, Pa