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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Such courage , even the courage to be wrong.

Huh? Flying a Curtiss biplane?

Inventing new stuff and trying out new stuff. Plus an airplane made of paper and light wood? Yeah, precarious stuff. No?

Okay, the wrong part lost me. Better now. And today we have people jumping off mountains wearing gliding/flying suits......line between courage and crazy gets a little blurry sometimes.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[healey36]

The Cumberland Valley Railroad had some lovely stations.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Is that an LCL freight container behind that station wagon? Looks a lot like some of the traction LCL containers.

[rogruth]

Is that an LCL freight container behind that station wagon? Looks a lot like some of the traction LCL containers.

I remember the PRR used some that were similar to that that were loaded into gondolas. @1940s and early '50s. Maybe a longer time period.

[healey36]

Could be, but I've never seen an LCL with an arched top on it. As Roger said, perhaps that's a Pennsy design. I wonder if that building is still there?

The car looks like an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser. That was a terrific wagon, especially the ones from the 1960s that had clerestory windows.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Could be, but I've never seen an LCL with an arched top on it. As Roger said, perhaps that's a Pennsy design. I wonder if that building is still there?

I've seen the traction freight LCL containers that had the arch roof; not sure of the Pennsy ones

The car looks like an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser. That was a terrific wagon, especially the ones from the 1960s that had clerestory windows.

We had the Buick version with the clerestory windows; 400 cube engine with 4 barrel carb; it would get up and go!

[chuck]

Windows were ok until the sun was beating down on you in late summer. The rear door was also problematic, weird "three way" design). The chassis and drive train were highly desired on the demolition derby circuit. The "ultimate" upgrade was the early 70's models with the clamshell rear door, the "Custom Cruiser". The front end could tale a lot of punishment and all that crap for the clamshell door made the rear end almost invulnerable so long as you didn't car about opening it . In many cases trying to ram one of these from behind wound up with more damage to the attacker. The rail assembly also allowed to driver to "attack" from the rear. The tracks acting like giant spear points!

[healey36]

The Old Man had a '72 Buick Estate Wagon for a few years. Packed the Buick 455, a monster motor...I recall looking in there with the hood up, couldn't see the ground anywhere. Wall-to-wall engine. It had an electric tail-gate that dropped down into floor. Took my driver's test in that thing, back when you still had to parallel park. The Old Man thought that was freakin' hilarious. Stuck it on the first attempt, which earned me a bit of grudging respect.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Packed the Buick 455, a monster motor...

That's what was in the Skylark GS stage 1. I just had a regular Skylark with the 350. I have a hard time imaging what it might have been like with a 455.

[chuck]

Pretty close to being a tank. Can't imagine trying to parallel park that monster. Three rows of seats, all looking forward AND cargo space behind the third row. Seated nine relatively comfortably (getting into the third row was tricky). I think the only thing bigger was the Suburban.

[healey36]

I presume this is a shot of the CVRR's first bridge over the Susquehanna, taken from the south shore. Looks like the telegraph poles are sunk in the piers rather than attached to the bridge.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I presume this is a shot of the CVRR's first bridge over the Susquehanna, taken from the south shore. Looks like the telegraph poles are sunk in the piers rather than attached to the bridge.

Yes. Pretty common card that was in several versions; there's a night time version, too. That baggage car is also a PRR class BN or BNa. Plans for it about in the shop....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Looking down into the valley, when traveling the highway above, on my way to York, I believe I saw the pier remnants of that RR bridge.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Looking down into the valley, when traveling the highway above, on my way to York, I believe I saw the pier remnants of that RR bridge.

Possible depending on the road you were on....