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

[Roy]

Is it possible it's a storm drain?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Is it possible it's a storm drain?

Possible, yes. A water carrying feature, probable. For all I know it's the race way for a mill, a Roman aqueduct, or the pathway for the quadrennial great oyster migration......

[Rufus T. Firefly]

More Liberty, PA

[Rufus T. Firefly]

One last view of Liberty

[healey36]

The proverbial fork-in-the-road...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The proverbial fork-in-the-road...

And, I took it!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Life seemed so much harder and dirtier, back then, compared to nowadays, but maybe that's merely a view thru the smogged-over eyes of a steel mill town boy. Yet, there didn't seem to be many protections in the law and in company policies that were on-the-books to protect workers, on railroads and otherwise.

I can recall clearly snow fallings that could be catalogued according to the grey or black layers of soot among them; also, mother didn't dare hang laundry out to dry on the days when everybody knew the effluence from the mills into the air would be profound. Sometimes, we did, and I can still see the black soot stuck to the still-wet white sheets.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Life seemed so much harder and dirtier, back then, compared to nowadays.......

It was. And, in some professions, it still is.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Life seemed so much harder and dirtier, back then, compared to nowadays.......

It was. And, in some professions, it still is.

Perhaps, figuratively as well as literally.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Might be one of the most interesting photo cards that I've posted here in a long time.....

[rogruth]

Interesting machine. What is it?
What is the device that the man on top has his hand on?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Every object and person in that photo has long ago been dust. Scary stuff. To me.
I hope the men found some joy along the way.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Interesting machine. What is it?
What is the device that the man on top has his hand on?

And, here is part of why this is such an interesting car - that's a PRR Poling car that was used in that yard. I've forgotten the specific classification designation for that car - there were 3-4 different versions and that's a fairly early version.

He has his hand on the counterweight balanced pivot for moving and positioning the pole into the poling pocket on the end of the car being moved on the adjacent track.

[rogruth]

I have seen a poling car in use on the PRR but don't remember that. Probably a different type.