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

[healey36]

It looks a bit like Uniontown, a little place about seven or eight miles west of here.

If that's Mt. Savage, then that's the Cumberland & Pennsylvania Railroad in the foreground. The C&P had their offices and shop at Mt. Savage. The Western Maryland acquired the C&P in 1944.

It's interesting (to me, at least) that the station at Frostburg that the Western Maryland Scenic uses is actually the C&P's station, not the Western Maryland's original station which sat a few hundred yards away on the WM's line heading up Savage Mountain. I remember walking down to the old C&P station when I was in school. Abandoned and dilapidated back then, it looked like if you leaned on it, it might fall over. Seeing it now, it's just remarkable.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Three in MD........

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Seeing those houses so near the RR tracks reminded me of my paternal great-grandfather's house in Braddock , PA, which was his family home when he first emigrated (1890's) from Italy to the USA to work in steel mills. The house, just off Braddock Ave. , down 2nd St., and very near the Monongahela River, if I recall correctly, was right next to the tracks, but with its left side parallel to them, not perpendicular , with a huge 7-8' tall wooden fence separating the house property from the railroad.

I liked visiting there because they still used a stove that had tall legs and burned coal (!) which was totally antique-novel to me, and the entire house vibrated when a steam locomotive passed down the tracks alongside the house on its way into the steelmill . Those trains made a tremendous noise as they shuffled on by. Plus, my great-grandmother made the best rigatoni ever, and she would always hand me a little glass of red wine ("For digestion," she would say) to enjoy with it, even though I was just in the single digits of age when we visited them.

The actual house was almost identical to the third one down that row in your photo, Rufus, so you have refreshed a wonderful memory from my boyhood for me. Thanks!!!!

[J. S. Bach]

...snip... The actual house was almost identical to the third one down that row in your photo, Rufus, so you have refreshed a wonderful memory from my boyhood for me. Thanks!!!!

Does that include the partial one on the far right? Either way, it looks like a nice dwelling with fond memories.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...snip... The actual house was almost identical to the third one down that row in your photo, Rufus, so you have refreshed a wonderful memory from my boyhood for me. Thanks!!!!

Does that include the partial one on the far right? Either way, it looks like a nice dwelling with fond memories.

Yes, including that partial view of the first house in that row. It's the house next to an open area ; we can see a good bit of its side, which is reminiscent of what I remember most about the family house in Braddock.
Thank you for your interest and reply, J.S.

[healey36]

It looks a bit like Uniontown, a little place about seven or eight miles west of here.

The local brain trust here says it’s Union Mills, around 1900 or so. Union Mills is about seven miles up the old Baltimore Pike heading toward Gettysburg. It’s the ancestral stomping ground of the Shriver clan, you know Sargent Shriver, Maria Shriver...them Shrivers.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[HONDO74]

Must have been common practice back then to allow children to play along side the railroad tracks in front of the house. Today the parents would be charged with child abuse and the children removed.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Must have been common practice back then to allow children to play along side the railroad tracks in front of the house.

Tracks were right in front of my grandparents, and then across the street - we all played there.

Today the parents would be charged with child abuse and the children removed.

Your definition of abuse is skewed; at worse, negligence.

[HONDO74]

Must have been common practice back then to allow children to play along side the railroad tracks in front of the house.

Tracks were right in front of my grandparents, and then across the street - we all played there.

Today the parents would be charged with child abuse and the children removed.

Your definition of abuse is skewed; at worse, negligence.

I didn't coin the term "child abuse" that's coming from social services. The government agency that has the power to remove children from their family's for what ever reason they come up with.

I reference an incident from a couple of years ago where 2 young children were removed and the mother was charged with "child abuse" because she allowed the kids to go to a nearby park by themselves. It's called free range parenting. The older child had a cell phone with her so she could call the mother.

My parents would have went through the same thing when I was young because I was a "free range" child. And I didn't have a cell phone with me. And there were just as many perverts running around out there as there is today.

And I bet there are many older members here that were also free range children when they were young.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

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And I bet there are many older members here that were also free range children when they were young.

Totally.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I reference an incident from a couple of years ago where 2 young children were removed and the mother was charged with "child abuse" because she allowed the kids to go to a nearby park by themselves. It's called free range parenting. The older child had a cell phone with her so she could call the mother.

Yes, it was over in MD and I remember it well as it made the news several times. The parents were not charged with child abuse; they were actually not charege with any crime but threatened with "endangerment". If anything, that does not speak will of the community and the local police that they accept such potentials within their locale. In the end, the parents won; the county overstepped its authority.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

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And I bet there are many older members here that were also free range children when they were young.

Totally.

Mine were.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

In my little town and its suburb, atop a rise along the Monongahela River , as a boy during the 50's and as an adolescent during the 60's , we walked everywhere (before I got my driver's license at 16,) including at night. For example , I'd walk in the early morning from our house in the 'burbs the 3+ mi into town to serve at 7:30am Mass, and as a teen I'd walk with friends from their homes in town, out to my house, then to a big amusement park near my home, staying there, sometimes, until 9-10pm, get pizza at a small shop, and then walk them back to their in-town
homes, and walking to my home afterwards.

I ne'er saw a single preevoit nor got treatened by any bully, ever.

Nowadays, I wouldn't even drive thru the same areas, having been warned a couple years ago not to dare visit my parents' graves for fear of the certainty of being carjacked at the nearest stop sign at the cemetery gate.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Nowadays, I wouldn't even drive thru the same areas, having been warned a couple years ago not to dare visit my parents' graves for fear of the certainty of being carjacked at the nearest stop sign at the cemetery gate.

Address?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Why?