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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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

The Schwartz in strong in this one,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

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

The Schwartz is strong in this one,

Yuuuup. And perky, too!

[healey36]

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.

Many of the HAER's photographs can be viewed online, and they are pretty amazing. One occasionally reads about locations visited fifty years on where it looks like the employees set their hammers down on the anvil at the end of the day, walking out to never return. This looks like such a place.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Dining Room at the Sanitarium Hospital in Mont Alto, Pa

[healey36]

Another lorry by the Gruber Wagon Works:



Can't tell who the chassis manufacturer was...Ford perhaps. This would make a great model.

Healey

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Can't tell who the chassis manufacturer was...Ford perhaps. This would make a great model.

I was hoping that you might know the answer to that question. Should not be all that terribly difficult to take a die cast model, strip it down, and then rebuild that superstructure on to it.

[Roy]

Well, it looks very much like a Model T chassis, c.1920.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Well, it looks very much like a Model T chassis, c.1920.

Probably could start with a Wiseman Models kit.............

[rex desilets]

What a project for Rufus' model railroad.
LMK if you want drawings of the Gruber WW.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That photo is very instructive, for so many details, to me. It's a real keeper. I also enjoyed the detail of that empty, weed-filled lot (depression?)right next to the station house. I'd never have thought such an area existed and surely would not have modeled it, having never seen such a picture. Thanks!

[Roy]

Reminds me of the station I had on my childhood HO layout.

[rogruth]

It appears that the area in front of the station has been "paved" for loading and unloading.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

That photo is very instructive, for so many details, to me. It's a real keeper. I also enjoyed the detail of that empty, weed-filled lot (depression?)right next to the station house. I'd never have thought such an area existed and surely would not have modeled it, having never seen such a picture. Thanks!

I like that freight house further back in the scene - might have to look for a card featuring it.

[Mitch]

Vandergrift is only 10 or 11 miles from me here at Freeport. I wouldn't call it a town of winding streets. It's laid out in a circle. You can Google the town and see who the designer was. There's a really old building in town that was originally a stage theater, then became a cinema, then went into disrepair for quite some time. Now it is restored back to originality. You probably know the type of building I'm talkin' about; looks like a big bank or a court house. Big pillars out in front. I have a book on the Conemaugh line that shows the pic of that station and freight house from the other side. The U.S.Steel mill would be to your left and behind you. And that bridge in the background is over the Kiski River. BTW, it ain't U.S.Steel anymore.