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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice station with a little bit of glamour added.

Yes, I can almost imagine seeing her ankles,

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Nice station with a little bit of glamour added.

I wonder if she was asked to pose or if she bolted out the front door as soon as she became aware of the presence of a camera.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nice station with a little bit of glamour added.

I wonder if she was asked to pose or if she bolted out the front door as soon as she became aware of the presence of a camera.

We may never know. I'll have to see if I can expand that part of the photo.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[John Webster]

Got a kick out of the message on the dance pavilion card; "Say kid you sure can go some on this floor". Hints at wild times.

I was at Euclid Beach the night their dance pavilion burned. It was a spectacular conflagration. The park was being torn down then and the demolition crew would suruptitiously set fire to parts of the rubble on rainy nights to avoid having to haul it away.

[John Webster]

Love the A. Arnold, that's what a steam engine should look like.

Rufus, I hope you're planning to recreate her in O scale.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Love the A. Arnold, that's what a steam engine should look like.

That engine does have nice lines to it,

Rufus, I hope you're planning to recreate her in O scale.

I have a little 4-4-0 stashed away that might be suitable to convert into a passable representation......2 other steam engines in the active queue ahead of that possibility. I'm in a self-imposed finish all of the projects on the bench space before doing anything else phase right now - then I'm going to clear my layout space and finish a lot of stuff in there that's been sitting idle for too long.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Wow. Never saw anything like it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Wow. Never saw anything like it.

Well, you can see the Pioneer in person at the B&O museum in Baltimore and the combine is in the Strasburg PRR museum.

[aterry11]

Is the combine a payroll car?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Is the combine a payroll car?

No. it really is a combine, one of earliest - CVRR was the 1st to offer sleeper service.

[rogruth]

Looks as though the train was set as a display in that photo.
Steps into the combine, exit sign and some kind of a block on the driver.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Looks as though the train was set as a display in that photo.
Steps into the combine, exit sign and some kind of a block on the driver.

Yup. Those two pieces of stock were taken all over the country for expositions, fairs, etc., up though the 30's.

Pioneer was in service from 1851 to 1890 and then retired to be a historical item for another 70 years - conveyed to the Smithsonian in 1960.

Currently at the B&O museum in Baltimore resting quietly.

I wish that the two could be reunited either there or in Strasburg