Subway, Elevated, Trolley & Traction Lines photos

[healey36]

One in G-burg can be entertaining.....

Easy.....traffic entering the circle yields to the traffic going round. There are a lot of them in New England, where they are called rotarys.

They're called rotaries in VA, MD, and PA, too! There's one in the middle of nowhere that I encounter on my way to Mercersburg.

A few laps and you are officially a Rotarian.

I seem to recall the ones in NE being quite a bit larger in diameter than the ones they build around here.

[E7]

The only one I'm familiar with in NE is located in Newbury/Newburyport, Mass. There are buildings around about 180 degrees with about 3 or 4 restaurants and a LOM (Loyal Order of Moose). You can get from one end of town to the other deceptively fast via the rotary because the main street is a large arc, and you are driving between the two ends. Visualize going across the end of a horseshoe. It is bigger than the two I am familiar with here, but I wouldn't call it huge. I used to go up there the week of memorial day every year, but a lot of my friends up that way have passed on. I'd like to make it once more before I buy the farm.

[healey36]

My first glimpse of a rotary was back in 1979 on a road trip with a some college buddies to Newport, RI. Once off I-95 and onto a state highway, there were a number of them. We all had a good laugh at the signs "Rotary Ahead". Then we discovered they called submarine/cold-cut sandwiches "Grinders". I love that part of the country.

I hadn't seen any more NE rotaries until just a few years ago when I spent a week in Rockport, Mass. There were a couple of them just outside Gloucester, one of which had a grass center that must have been 100 yards across. Salem had a number of them as well.

Still reading through old trade journals. Saw this MU car built for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway:



The article (Railway Age, March 28, 1925) reported that these units were built to be effectively fire-proof and able to operate in water two feet deep. I wonder what the equipment was like over on the Not-So-Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Having seen many photos of Indian railway operations, this one was probably designed with a 200-person capacity.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.......... was probably designed with a 200-person capacity.

On the inside; 200 more on the outside.

[healey36]

Comfortably...

[E7]

My first glimpse of a rotary was back in 1979 on a road trip with a some college buddies to Newport, RI. Once off I-95 and onto a state highway, there were a number of them. We all had a good laugh at the signs "Rotary Ahead". Then we discovered they called submarine/cold-cut sandwiches "Grinders". I love that part of the country.

I liked it well enough that I think I could have lived there, but I couldn't have afforded to do so. Maybe grinder came from the fact that there was NO lettuce....diced up onions, tomatoes and pickles. I actually prefer them that way without all the lettuce.

I hadn't seen any more NE rotaries until just a few years ago when I spent a week in Rockport, Mass. There were a couple of them just outside Gloucester, one of which had a grass center that must have been 100 yards across. Salem had a number of them as well.

I drove down to the north end of Gloucester one time. Took a picture of the statue "They who go down to the sea in ships". I must have been tired because I turned around and went back North. I missed all those rotarys! Dang! Didn't want to get too close to Boston! Was there back in '74.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

On the Androscoggin & Kennebec

[healey36]

Monroe Street and the Hotel Pantlind, Grand Rapids, Michigan, sometime during the first decade of the 20th century:



Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[J. S. Bach]

I have an O scale model of that CNS&M merchandise dispatch car, or one very similar to it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I have an O scale model of that CNS&M merchandise dispatch car, or one very similar to it.

I had one and sold it off. Car Works, I think?

Been slowly clearing stuff out the door that I really have no good reason to have other than parts to build more fun stuff!

[healey36]

From Railway Age, October 31, 1925:

[rogruth]

If IC was still using those cars in the late 1940s and early 1950s, I probably rode on them.
They were faster than most steam trains because of their acceleration.

[J. S. Bach]

They were still using them into the 1970s if not the early 1980s.