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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Roy]

Rufus, are you from Oil City, or are we not doing the hometown thing any more?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus, are you from Oil City, or are we not doing the hometown thing any more?

I was possessed of the silly thought that you or Murph might start a separate new thread so that the subject line might drawn some more participation.

No. Not Oil City, but I do lay claim in part to Greencastle, Pa

[Roy]

I was possessed of the silly thought that you or Murph might start a separate new thread so that the subject line might drawn some more participation.

Good idea.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I was possessed of the silly thought that you or Murph might start a separate new thread so that the subject line might drawn some more participation.

Good idea.

I am permitted one now and again.

[John Webster]

Looks like the Erie RR Hose Co. is drawing a man hauled manual pumper. Those had a pole running along each side and the crew would raise and lower the poles which drove the pump.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ha ... &FORM=VIRE

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Looks like the Erie RR Hose Co. is drawing a man hauled manual pumper. Those had a pole running along each side and the crew would raise and lower the poles which drove the pump.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=ha ... &FORM=VIRE

They used to take the one they had in Greencastle out and demonstrate that during Old Home Week when I was a lad.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[John Webster]

On the back of the hose cart is what I think is a mechanism that drives the hose reel so that the hose unreels as the cart is pulled, laying the hose down on the pavement without dragging it.

I wonder what color that car was.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

On the back of the hose cart is what I think is a mechanism that drives the hose reel so that the hose unreels as the cart is pulled, laying the hose down on the pavement without dragging it.

Think you are correct.

I wonder what color that car was.

White or yellow? Sadly while these cards preserve a lot of information, we do lose details like actual colors in the photos.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wow, somehow, though I don't know why, I never imagined such a commotion of vehicles back then. Very nice to now have that photo as a reference point. Seems like there was no particular decision established on direction of traffic flow, that day.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wow, somehow, though I don't know why, I never imagined such a commotion of vehicles back then. Very nice to now have that photo as a reference point. Seems like there was no particular decision established on direction of traffic flow, that day.

Indeed! It surprised me as well. Ok, maybe some aspect of the Old Home Week celebration, parade aftermath, whatever......

[rogruth]

Seems as though every town in that part of PA had an "Old Home Week" in those days.
I wonder what happened to that idea?