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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg....

Never wandered over to that end of town for some reason.

Photographed by Detroit Publishing Company some forty years after the battle, still looks pretty desolate.

Maybe it was still pretty desolate in the 70's....

[healey36]

The ridge's appearance just north of the seminary has changed quite a bit in the last few years. The NPS acquired a motel/restaurant property just at the point where Rte. 30 crosses the ridge...they tore all of that down, leaving the stone building that was Lee's headquarters in place and cleaning up the site. While it's an improvement for the field purists, I miss the little private museum that once occupied the HQ building. They had some pretty extraordinary artifacts in there, one being a four or five foot section of split rail fence from a nearby farm that must have had a hundred mini-balls embedded. Seeing that got you wondering how anyone survived these battles.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The ridge's appearance just north of the seminary has changed quite a bit in the last few years. The NPS acquired a motel/restaurant property just at the point where Rte. 30 crosses the ridge...they tore all of that down, leaving the stone building that was Lee's headquarters in place and cleaning up the site. While it's an improvement for the field purists, I miss the little private museum that once occupied the HQ building. They had some pretty extraordinary artifacts in there, one being a four or five foot section of split rail fence from a nearby farm that must have had a hundred mini-balls embedded. Seeing that got you wondering how anyone survived these battles.

Hmmm......... Have not been on that stretch of 30 for a while.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Ventilated boxcar day...........

a PRR car!



CNO&TP



the classic ACL car



loading a Seaboard line car

[J. S. Bach]

The best prototype RR photos that you have posted in a while. Lots of possible modeling detail there.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The best prototype RR photos that you have posted in a while. Lots of possible modeling detail there.

I have to look up that PRR car to find what class it is - was not aware that the PRR actually even had such cars!

[J. S. Bach]

I have to look up that PRR car to find what class it is - was not aware that the PRR actually even had such cars!

Built may 1897.

The last shot of the car being loaded may have been taken in the twenties judging by the modern pneumatic tire on the truck. That would be a neat scene to model.

[robert.]

XL class. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2012 ... -box-cars/

[Rufus T. Firefly]

XL class. http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/2012 ... -box-cars/

That's not an XL class car -- XL were not ventilated cars with vents along the top of the sides and the solid and barred doors.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...very interesting to be reminded of what real hopper loads looked like, esp. including how high they went.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...very interesting to be reminded of what real hopper loads looked like, esp. including how high they went.

These were almost certainly staged for the photographs. I doubt you'd ever see loads as neatly arranged in an actual train. What these do is to present the size of the various grades of coal, egg, stove, and lump.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

...very interesting to be reminded of what real hopper loads looked like, esp. including how high they went.

These were almost certainly staged for the photographs. I doubt you'd ever see loads as neatly arranged in an actual train. What these do is to present the size of the various grades of coal, egg, stove, and lump.

Oh. I wondered about that, esp. the top coalcar. Thanks for the clarification.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

...very interesting to be reminded of what real hopper loads looked like, esp. including how high they went.

These were almost certainly staged for the photographs. I doubt you'd ever see loads as neatly arranged in an actual train. What these do is to present the size of the various grades of coal, egg, stove, and lump.

Oh. I wondered about that, esp. the top coalcar. Thanks for the clarification.

Think about the time it took to stack and place that coal so perfectly..........