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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

On the street in Liberty, Pa

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Interesting to note how high-up the sidewalks were placed, above street-level, so different from nowadays.

And I have a dim memory of some places in Pennsylvania having stone 1-2-step-ups at curbside, here-n-there, especially in front of nice houses, for folks to alight from carriages, I assumed,

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Interesting to note how high-up the sidewalks were placed, above street-level, so different from nowadays.

All depends on grade and such but tends to be level in more recent construction where they just came in and literally leveled everything, carted away the top soil, and then built developments. Older construction generally worked with the grade.

And I have a dim memory of some places in Pennsylvania having stone 1-2-step-ups at curbside, here-n-there, especially in front of nice houses, for folks to alight from carriages, I assumed,

Maybe more related to drainage and more historically to provide a stream for more noxious effluents to be kept down below the houses and then to be clearer better when it rained.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

What I was trying to describe about those curbside steps were white-ish stone and approx the size of two cartons of grapefruit having been set there , staggered, individually , one atop the other, but not as a continual feature along the roadway.
(I don't think I'm doing a good job of explaining, this morning.)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What I was trying to describe about those curbside steps were white-ish stone and approx the size of two cartons of grapefruit having been set there , staggered, individually , one atop the other, but not as a continual feature along the roadway.
(I don't think I'm doing a good job of explaining, this morning.)

That's clear. I've seen those many times, but not recently.

[rogruth]

What I was trying to describe about those curbside steps were white-ish stone and approx the size of two cartons of grapefruit having been set there , staggered, individually , one atop the other, but not as a continual feature along the roadway.
(I don't think I'm doing a good job of explaining, this morning.)

That's clear. I've seen those many times, but not recently.

I also remember those.

[Roy]

Seemed appropriate:

[MurphOnMillerAve]

[rogruth]

Yes, that is what I remember but in our area they were closer to the street.
My grandfather told me they were for carriage loading/unloading.
Some even had hitching posts nearby. There were some still extant in
my hometown and surrounding area, eastern Ohio, in the 1940s.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Derry, Pa.....not to be confused with that other Derry in Maine

[rogruth]

CV or PRR?
Los of detail can be seen in this photo.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

CV or PRR?
Los of detail can be seen in this photo.

PRR. Looks to be an early H6a, but I have not looked up that engine number.

CVRR had 5 or 6 H6's, but the numbers were in the 80's range.

[healey36]

A Quality Pretzel Company truck built by the Gruber Wagon Works of Bern Township PA, c. 1920:



Chassis built by the Gomery-Schwartz Car Company of Philadelphia.

Butter pretzels are hard to find around here anymore.

Healey

[rex desilets]

Gruber Wagon Works.
My brother supervised stabilization and restoration. Factory moved to a park outside Reading. He told me that when he first went inside it appeared as if the workers had just gone home and work would resume the next day.
I scored the book on the factory put together, by HAER, filled with drawings of the factory's many stages. Always desired building a model, then switched to O, and it's too large.
Go visit it in its present location and preserved state.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

A handsome and proud little vehicle, isn't it.