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

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph,
Is that you in the trench coat eating the ice cream cone?...

He's my alter ego and is found lurking at several spots around town.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Murph,
Is that you in the trench coat eating the ice cream cone?...

He's my alter ego and is found lurking at several spots around town.

1st cousin to Waldo and friend of Carmen Sandiego

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Looks like it has two link-and-pin coupler pockets on the pilot, one above the other.

Yes. Narrow and standard gauge dual coupler pockets to line up with the center of each gauge.

[Roy]

Looks like it has two link-and-pin coupler pockets on the pilot, one above the other.

Yes. Narrow and standard gauge dual coupler pockets to line up with the center of each gauge.

Thanks.

[rogruth]

The Tionesta Valley was 3' gauge.
There may be three pockets with the top two off set on each side of the center line used for moving standard gauge cars.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Interesting that the main row of houses faces the railroad tracks, separated from them only by their road, running parallel to the tracks, which appears to be true of the row of homes on the far side of the tracks, too. Today's homes seem to be built entirely away from railroad tracks, or at least with their backs to them. Right? (Generalities are often full of holes.)

That whole, almost bucolic, vista would be wonderful as a train layout in itself, but all that modeling would likely take a lifetime.

[rogruth]

There are many towns in the south with the main street along the railroad tracks and houses and businesses facing the tracks.
That would include West Virginia and Kentucky and all south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Also all through the west.
Remember that railroads were the cause of many towns.

[HONDO74]

Rufus
Is there a date on the picture of Hyndman, Pennsylvania ?

I am looking up more info on it. I do find these pictures that you post fascinating as it's an interesting period of time in the history of the country

This aerial photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, shows the site where 32 cars from a CSX freight train derailed Aug. 2 in Hyndman, Pa. (CTN photo by Steve Bittner)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Saw that same photo when I looked up Hyndman.

Card was from 1908 or 1909......

Interesting looking at the card and then Hyndman on Google maps from the sat pictures. I do look at quite a few to see if I can get some feel for what I'm looking at in the card vs. modern times. Sometimes it's easy and the structure or scene is still there and easy to track down; sometimes it takes work, and all to often, I fail.

[HONDO74]

Rufus
I downloaded the picture you posted and have digitally sharped it so I can zoom in on some areas. Being that this was a rural area in 1909 what would have been the main form of transportation for these people other that the railroad. I am not seeing any automobiles in the picture. Would it have been the horse/horse and buggy/wagon.

What I see at the back of the property is an out building about the size of a small barn. All of them seem to have one. Maybe for a horse or maybe chickens.

I see clothes hanging on the lines, Part of that GREEN thing back then.

I think I see some gardens where they raise some of their own food.

Some interesting info about the town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyndman,_Pennsylvania

http://www.pa-roots.com/bedford/townshi ... anhis.html

https://www.worldmapsonline.com/histori ... Y-1906.htm

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus
I downloaded the picture you posted and have digitally sharped it so I can zoom in on some areas. Being that this was a rural area in 1909 what would have been the main form of transportation for these people other that the railroad. I am not seeing any automobiles in the picture. Would it have been the horse/horse and buggy/wagon.

Probably so in that area at that time; automobiles were in bigger towns, but scarce in that part of Pa then.

What I see at the back of the property is an out building about the size of a small barn. All of them seem to have one. Maybe for a horse or maybe chickens.

I see clothes hanging on the lines, Part of that GREEN thing back then.

I think I see some gardens where they raise some of their own food.

Very reminiscent of my grandparents house - large house out facing the road with a long back yard area that was really a huge veg garden and then a barn at the end of the lot.

Bedford Co. in PA about 75 miles from Frederick Md and I've probably been near there a few times....

[John Webster]

The small buildings near the houses were woodsheds, the small buildings at the back of the lot were outhouses. While there are telegraph poles along the railroad line I doubt that there was electrical service to the homes.

[HONDO74]

The small buildings near the houses were woodsheds, the small buildings at the back of the lot were outhouses. While there are telegraph poles along the railroad line I doubt that there was electrical service to the homes.

That was a long trip on a cold winter snowy night I would have pissed or crapped my pants before I made it that far.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I wonder if those backyards were so long to provide space for each family to move their outhouses around , as needed, digging new holes and covering up the old.