A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

[rogruth]

What do you mean 6/4 and 6/6 windows?

6 panes in the upper sash; 4 panes in the lower sash = 6/4

I count 9 panes upper/6 panes lower. What am I missing here?

??? Me too.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

6 panes in the upper sash; 4 panes in the lower sash = 6/4

I count 9 panes upper/6 panes lower. What am I missing here?

??? Me too.

You are correct.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Now, that was drama.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[HONDO74]

Now, that was drama.

Black Diamond, PA Train Derailed, Feb 1907
https://www.gendisasters.com/pennsylvan ... d-feb-1907

Johnstown, Pa., Feb. 23. -- The Pennsylvania railroad's eighteen hour special west bound train was wrecked at Black Diamond, seven miles east of Johnstown, shortly after midnight.
There were fifty-four passengers on the train and nearly every one of them was injured. JOHN F. KLINE, postmaster at Joliet, Ill., was badly crushed about the head and is probably fatally injured.

The Pennsylvania officials say that no one was killed and that KLINE was the only person fatally hurt. The train was running about fifty miles an hour and was thirty-five minutes late. When rounding a sharp curve the Pullman coaches left the rails and plunged over a sixty-foot embankment into the river.
All attempts to obtain information from the railroad officials met with rebuffs at every hand.
The accident was caused by a brake rigging on the first Pullman dropping down and tearing up the rails for 300 yards.
The engine and combination coach did not leave the rails, but the four Pullmans following plunged down over the embankment to the river over 100 feet below, overturning when they reached the bottom. Some of the seriously injured were brought to this city and others were taken to Altoona. The greater number, whose injuries were slight, continued the west bound journey on a special train.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Thanks, HONDO. An interesting read, indeed.
Murph

[J. S. Bach]

...snip... The Pennsylvania officials say that no one was killed and that KLINE was the only person fatally hurt. ...snip...

Did fatally have a different meaning back then????

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...snip... The Pennsylvania officials say that no one was killed and that KLINE was the only person fatally hurt. ...snip...

Did fatally have a different meaning back then????

It's right up there with the pronouncement of "killed dead"

[Rufus T. Firefly]

S. Carlisle St., Greencastle, PA

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I would imagine not a single house had central-heating, huh.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I would imagine not a single house had central-heating, huh.

I think you'd be wrong. Most had coal furnaces in the basements with hot water radiators by this time along Carlisle St. I lived there in a house that is in the next card I will post.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I would imagine not a single house had central-heating, huh.

I think you'd be wrong. Most had coal furnaces in the basements with hot water radiators by this time along Carlisle St. I lived there in a house that is in the next card I will post.

Thank you, Rufus. Good to get that proper perspective on what I was seeing and imagining there.

[Mitch]

The house my younger brother inherited in our parents will was built in 1883, and it was our homestead from the early '60s. It had a coal furnace in the basement, and only duct work for the first floor; living room, middle room, kitchen, and entry hallway. No blower, strictly gravity, and the upstairs bedrooms had no heat at all, except for a through the ceiling register in each room from the downstairs and what went up the stairway, but Dad blocked those registers off when he lowered and installed Celotex ceilings in all downstairs rooms. However, there originally were five fireplaces exiting two chimneys, one of which also included the furnace directly below the living room and above in "our" bedroom. One in the middle room, and two upstairs in the other bedrooms. In order to fire up hot enough to keep too much soot from building in the furnace kidney and chimney, it was not uncommon to go by our house in February and see both the front and back doors wide open to keep from melting in the house. Coal is just awesome. Got a back ache? Lay down on the carpet in the living room. Full body heating pad.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

House behind the tree sort of in the center is where my grandparents lived and I as well for some years. All the houses in the photo still exist.

The RR tracks are long gone.......