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

[rogruth]

:shock:

Gene Kelly even danced with cartoon characters in movies.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

:shock:

Gene Kelly even danced with cartoon characters in movies.

Oh, that's true. I remember that vaguely, having never been a particular fan of his (too much empty grinning). Was it a rabbit or a girl he had danced with? I do remember that in one unique (to me) movie, he fell into heat for a lovely woman who was a resident of a Scottish toughen that kept appearing in and disappearing from his reality. That was pretty imaginative.

But that "corn" looked like something from a G-scale model train layout, put into an HO or "Z" layout scene.

[rogruth]

That movie was Brigadoon, based on a broadway musical.
Brigadoon only appeared 100, or 500, or a lot of years in the real world.
The dancing, as in all Gene Kelly movies, is superb.
Murph,
Did you know that Gene Kelly was from Pittsburgh and played baseball at Pitt ?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

:shock:

Gene Kelly even danced with cartoon characters in movies.

Jerry Mouse of Tom & Jerry fame was the one he danced with in Anchors Aweigh

[MurphOnMillerAve]

That movie was Brigadoon, based on a broadway musical.
Brigadoon only appeared 100, or 500, or a lot of years in the real world.
The dancing, as in all Gene Kelly movies, is superb.
Murph,
Did you know that Gene Kelly was from Pittsburgh and played baseball at Pitt ?

Holy mackerel no!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Seems like another peaceful, idyllic Pennsylvania community of hard-work in' (I don't see crowds of people hanging-out in the streets , looking for handouts or victims.)

[MurphOnMillerAve]

And in reply to your present signature-line , I would only add Yes, and that every Denouement seems uniquely different from the rest.

[rogruth]

And in reply to your present signature-line , I would only add Yes, and that every Denouement seems uniquely different from the rest.

I agree and would not want it to be any other way.

[robert.]

Interesting town. not much has changed.

Pennsylvania_Route_54_east_in_Montgomery,_Pennsylvania.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery,_Pennsylvania

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Back to Scotland for a while.......

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[healey36]

I guess technically Harpers Ferry, WV, falls just outside the boundaries of what is considered the Cumberland Valley. I've read that most geographers consider the Potomac its southern boundary. Regardless, I had been looking for a photo of Bollman's railroad bridge and found one in the Library of Congress (linked here from an article in Structure magazine):



I had never realized the thing was built as both a railroad and a road bridge. Easy to understand why it was strategically important during the ACW (it's destruction was attempted on at least four occasions during the war). At a time when iron-bridging was still in its relative infancy, Bollman's early efforts appear to be one of substantial over-engineering, which may be why it survived numerous attempts at its destruction.

Here's an interesting article on the topic:

https://www.structuremag.org/?p=8096

A long-time bridge-engineer for the B&O, he would later found and run the Patapsco Bridge & Iron Works in Baltimore. Bollman would also serve briefly as the president of the Western Maryland from April, 1868, to May, 1870. Not many of his bridges have survived. I think the only "Bollman Truss" is at Savage Mills near Laurel, MD. There's a later truss bridge up near Meyersdale, PA, that was moved at some point, and we have a small one here in the county, preserved at the Union Mills homestead. Next time I'm up there I'll get a picture.

Healey

[MurphOnMillerAve]

....

That architecture, even it's emplacement on a rise like that, must be a "Scotish thing" because Andrew Carnegie (himself Scotish ?) built/donated several libraries almost exactly like that, in several mill-towns in the metropolitan Pittsburgh area , including the one in Duquesne in which I used to read, play, model train-club initiated, and swam in as a youth .

(If I could get a photo onto here , I'd show you . )