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

[rogruth]

I think that would be what we now call photoshopped.
I don't think people would be standing that close to a supposed atomic explosion.
I wonder what the real story was?

I agree, Murph, you couldn't work it into your layout nor could I but someone doing the wide open spaces might find a place.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I think that would be what we now call photoshopped.

Doubt it

I don't think people would be standing that close to a supposed atomic explosion.

Hard to believe it but once upon a time people did do stuff just like that although it is difficult to really be sure just how close that really is in that photo. The real hazards were not as well defined even then and/or they were discounted or dismissed. The effects of the aftermath was not thought of as being as dangerous as the initial explosion probably was the prevailing thinking at that time....and they were probably upwind anyway......unlike those filming The Conqueror.......

[rogruth]

All true.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Back to Mercersburg.........for a closer look

[rogruth]

Rufus,
Just what am I seeing in the part you enlarged?
Car being unloaded? How?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus,
Just what am I seeing in the part you enlarged?
Car being unloaded? How?

Looks like a pair of drop bottom gons on a raised track dropping their loads (gravel?) into holding bins; big stack of ties, other box cars over on the other track - the other side of the station - with the loading dock/deck area - that station is pictured in lots of cards from the other side - only card/photo I have that shows this side......with a horse tied up....and those 2 tanks for holding....something....

[rogruth]

I just realized that those cars are on a raised track.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I just realized that those cars are on a raised track.

That's why I enlarged it - I wanted to see that detail a bit better -- all around nice scene to model!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That whole panorama, reaching as far back as one could include, would make a wonderful layout, even if it were just a diorama with trains simply traveling back and forth. That yard-station (?) foreground area, every bit of it, is model-worthy, with each structure full of character. IMHO.
Murph

[rogruth]

I agree.

[John Webster]

Think what it would have looked like when the high school football team rode the train back after winning an away game.

That unloading facility would only take a space about 6" X 48".

[rogruth]

K-Line made a 3 R version about that size.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Back to Mercersburg.........for a closer look


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This shot, here,, in particular, looks especially right, given its parameters, for fitting on a layout, it seems to me. All it needs is some animal and people figures, and it's ready to come to life. (Yes, I see the guy and the horse in the distance.)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Jermyn, Pa

[rogruth]

What attracts me to these old photos that are posted by Rufus just dawned on me.
They all look so familiar they could be from my hometown in the upper Ohio Valley.