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

[healey36]

Almost looks like the aptly named Mountain View Hotel is located adjacent to a cemetery.

Are you sure that's what that is? Huge and w/o a church nearby seems odd.

Nope, not sure about anything. Maybe they're bee-hives (just kidding), or tree stumps. Too far off.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Almost looks like the aptly named Mountain View Hotel is located adjacent to a cemetery.

Are you sure that's what that is? Huge and w/o a church nearby seems odd.

Nope, not sure about anything. Maybe they're bee-hives (just kidding), or tree stumps. Too far off.

I thought tree stumps or a herd of sheep,

[chuck]

First thing that popped into my mind was cemetery. That's a lot of graves for a relatively remote area unless it was a battlefield?

[J. S. Bach]

Corn stalks bound together?

[chuck]

Corn stalks bound together?

Maybe. Those might be pumpkins in the cleared area. What is most remarkable is the size of the hotel. I can't come up with a reason for such a large structure in the middle of no-where. Inwood is literally a dot on the map. The rail line that used to go through the pass is a rails to trails path. The bridge has been removed and is being repaired on the banks of the river. There are actual towns a few miles upstream/downstream of this "place" and there are no railroad related facilities (water tower/column or coaling tower) at Inwood.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What is most remarkable is the size of the hotel. I can't come up with a reason for such a large structure in the middle of no-where. Inwood is literally a dot on the map.

Is a mystery to me as well, but 100 years ago this might have been some sort of well known resort.

[chuck]

Is a mystery to me as well, but 100 years ago this might have been some sort of well known resort.

But look at the train "station" in the second photo. It looks more like a bus stop? There is also an interesting structure up on the ridge at about 1 o'clock in the first photo . Looks a little like a sculpture of a man with a bow and arrow. I seriously doubt that's what t is

I looked over the area with Google Earth. There is a whole lot of nothing in the immediate vicinity. The site of the hotel is apparently under I-81 right of way. There are a bunch of two tracks winding up into "Blue Mountain".

There is a large poultry farm just east of the old site on Fort Swatara Road and a National Guard base and an adjacent Army base just east of that.

Apparently the pass was considered strategically important even in pre revolutionary times and a fort was established to protect it, hence Fort Swatara. Any dates on the photographs?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Is a mystery to me as well, but 100 years ago this might have been some sort of well known resort.

But look at the train "station" in the second photo. It looks more like a bus stop?

Barely a whistle stop! And that's why I posted the two together; juxtaposition was striking.

Any dates on the photographs?

Pre-1920 being RPPCs

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[healey36]

P O S of A = Patriotic Order Sons of America. Apparently they are still around, although only in Pennsylvania.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

top photo - looks like Boris Karloff standing there at the right of the front of the cowcatcher

[Rufus T. Firefly]

top photo - looks like Boris Karloff standing there at the right of the front of the cowcatcher

I see the resemblance.......wonder if Bela and Lon are on the next train.....

[healey36]

I wonder what RR is the top photo? CVRR? Reading? Looks like a camelback.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I wonder what RR is the top photo? CVRR? Reading? Looks like a camelback.

It's in Lickdale, Pa - not CVRR. Reading possibly; camelback, definitely. LV, maybe?