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

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...and no TVs. Must have been some lonely neighborhoods and communities if people did not make very good friends. But of course, that's true of anywhere and of contemporary life as well, isn't it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[John Webster]

Interesting locomotive, looks like it might be a 4-6-0 with spoked pilot wheels. The horizontal pilot slats and cover on the headlight are unusual. I'm guessing it was built before 1895 and the air pump and reservoir were added later. There's probably a very carefully told story explaining that gouge in the tender side.
Lovely looking group of young ladies waiting for the train. I wonder what color their dresses were? The film shows them as white but I suspect they could have been pastel blue or yellow. Did the crews make an effort not to produce sparks when they saw a turnout like that?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Now, that is some strong powers-of-observation, folks! I mean , for example, a tender gouge? Wow. Never saw that! You are cool, John Webster.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

A few lads taking a break at the Enola yards

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[rex desilets]

Another modelgenic photo!
My mother's uncle had a steam-powered thresher. She and other kids used to run along beside it. Feeling old here.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

At the Sand Works Quarry on the tracks in Mapleton, Pa

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That's some bold, casual men, there. Is it possible they all climbed up there using that tall, narrow thing the fellow in the lower right-hand foreground corner seems ready to mount?

And P.S., to Rex, referencing his comment immediately above this photo, that word you penned - "modelgenic",: is an expression well-worth the using in future (!)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That's some bold, casual men, there. Is it possible they all climbed up there using that tall, narrow thing the fellow in the lower right-hand foreground corner seems ready to mount?

Possible? Of course.

[John Webster]

In the center of the Looking North from Mapleton Depot photo there is a bridge made up of two spans.

The first span looks like a common truss bridge of the period.

The second span seems to be made of two arches with the roadway suspended on cables dependent from them. What were those arches made of and how were they anchored? That is a very unusual construction for the period and probably has an interesting story behind it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In the center of the Looking North from Mapleton Depot photo there is a bridge made up of two spans.

The first span looks like a common truss bridge of the period.

The second span seems to be made of two arches with the roadway suspended on cables dependent from them. What were those arches made of and how were they anchored? That is a very unusual construction for the period and probably has an interesting story behind it.

Noticed that, did you, Early suspension bridge?
Seems just as you state - unusual for the period and location. All gone now...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

An early 4-4-0 camelback - not sure from what RR; maybe P&R?

See those funky steps on the side to the front pilot area over the first lead wheel? Don't think I've ever seen that before....