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

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Just about every fiber of his being was dedicated to his position at that station, right up to his last breath.

That’s the impression I get from his body-language and facial expression .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

1 more from the LVRR..........

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Makes me wonder why such things occurred back then. (?)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Makes me wonder why such things occurred back then. (?)

Long list of reasons..........but usually humans were involved and their reliability is questionable.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Lycoming...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Lykens...

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The top photo reminds me very much of a roller-coaster, named The Racer, in Kennywood Park, Pennsylvania, just across a ravine from my childhood home. We children, teens, and adults loved the entire park and especially that ride, as well as The Jackrabbit. Wonderful memories.

P.S. The park , back in the 50's & early 60's, used to close itself on one special day to welcome the Catholic clergy and, especially, the Pittsburgh Diocese nuns, all convents and parochial schools, to ride for free and have privacy as they recreated. (Some of us neighborhood curious boys had a place, accessed via the ravine, to hide and watch the nuns play. We would do so for just a little while.)

[healey36]

I've seen a few photos of the inclined planes used at some of the eastern mines, and they all have a temporary and treacherous look about them. I guess when you spent a 12-hour shift a half-mile underground, a ride down the incline was the least of your worries.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

..................... a ride down the incline was the least of your worries.

More likely being sure of getting back up the incline would be at the back of many minds...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The miners......in Lykens

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Faces black with layers of coal dust. And their eventual reward were diseases of the lungs , at the very least .

[HONDO74]

Those coal miners with the whips must have used mules to pull the coal wagons out of the mines. ??

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Those coal miners with the whips must have used mules to pull the coal wagons out of the mines. ??

Use of mules was in a card I post a few weeks(?) back that showed miners with mules at an entrance. Not something well known, I guess.