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

[HONDO74]

Looks to be an early picture as I don't see any autos, just horse and buggy.... Looks like the monument was there and they put the tracks around it. I wonder why the monument was not in the center of the square/intersection.

Do you suppose Dorothy would still be there if we went to see her.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Looks to be an early picture as I don't see any autos, just horse and buggy....

~1910 +/- a few years

Looks like the monument was there and they put the tracks around it. I wonder why the monument was not in the center of the square/intersection.

I think it is in the center but the camera angle is misleading our eyes.

Do you suppose Dorothy would still be there if we went to see her.

Probably in the neighborhood, resting.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Blue Ridge Summit

[rogruth]

Is that a lower quadrant semaphore at the right of the steps?
Would be a nice station for a layout.
Baggage wagon and truck.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Is that a lower quadrant semaphore at the right of the steps?
Would be a nice station for a layout.
Baggage wagon and truck.

Yes. Station is still there....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

Things have not changed much.
More ( official ) watchers than workers.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Yes.....

I was more interested in the use of the 2-man cross cut saws in play for cutting the timbers. Makes a nice detail item in a scene.

[healey36]

Hmmm, that's a really interesting pair of photos. Given the practice of filling in trestles years after their construction, is this a picture of a filled in trestle that's been exposed by a washout, or is that new trestle-work?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I think that's repair / replacement of a washed out trestle.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Marysville....

[HONDO74]

At first I thought they were all sitting in the snow. But they are sitting on sleds ? What no snowman ??

[Rufus T. Firefly]

At first I thought they were all sitting in the snow. But they are sitting on sleds ?

Yes. Sitting on the snow seems foolish given other options.

What no snowman ??

Frost the Snowman was an invention of the 50's..... Way too early for this scene,

[HONDO74]

At first I thought they were all sitting in the snow. But they are sitting on sleds ?

Yes. Sitting on the snow seems foolish given other options.

What no snowman ??

Frost the Snowman was an invention of the 50's..... Way too early for this scene,

You might be thinking of the song Frosty the Snowman, 1950 by Gene Autry. The history of the snowman goes back a lot further in time. The first known picture of a snowman was in 1853.



Snowman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowman

[Rufus T. Firefly]

At first I thought they were all sitting in the snow. But they are sitting on sleds ?

Yes. Sitting on the snow seems foolish given other options.

What no snowman ??

Frost the Snowman was an invention of the 50's..... Way too early for this scene,

You might be thinking of the song Frosty the Snowman, 1950 by Gene Autry. The history of the snowman goes back a lot further in time. The first known picture of a snowman was in 1853.

Precisely why I very specifically stated "Frosty",