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

[J. S. Bach]

A very early incarnation of a forerunner of Fleetwood Mac.........

I doubt it, they probably sounded a lot better than Fleetwood Mac.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I never got it straight - are they called "boppers" or "bobbers" ? They could bop down the tracks or bob down the tracks. (But could they ditty-bop ? Or is that diddy-bop ?)

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Bobbers

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Bobbers

I just knew you or uncle Wayne would know and share. T'anx, bub.

[webenda]

I have no reference to back up the following etymology of the term, "bobber" but it might be true. Anyone ever ride in one?

Most railroads opted for a caboose with two trucks (called "bogies") and eight wheels, but some eastern roads chose a no-truck, four-wheel design called a "bobber." The lack of trucks reduced the amount of steel needed for the caboose, thus lowering the final cost. This car got its name from the way it would "bob" down the track. Its tracking was so bad that several states enacted laws prohibiting the use of bobber cabooses (although by then the railroads had already stopped buying them). => http://www.angelfire.com/sc3/aldershot7/caboose.html

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Good to learn.
Thanks. Mr. Dependable Wayne. (You appear to inspire positive nicknames from me, huh.)
Murph, the Far East RR station platform roof lurker-percher.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

Do we still have orphanages and children homes?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Do we still have orphanages and children homes?

Of course not. There are no poor, or orphans, or homeless in the US, and catsup is a vegetable, and everyone is above average.

[rogruth]

Do we still have orphanages and children homes?

Of course not. There are no poor, or orphans, or homeless in the US, and catsup is a vegetable, and everyone is above average.

Really? If I was still teaching I probably would have known that but I retired 17 years ago from teaching and back then I needed to know that stuff.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Do we still have orphanages and children homes?

Of course not. There are no poor, or orphans, or homeless in the US, and catsup is a vegetable, and everyone is above average.

Really? If I was still teaching I probably would have known that but I retired 17 years ago from teaching and back then I needed to know that stuff.

Poverty was eliminated back in the 80's...........

[rogruth]

Of course not. There are no poor, or orphans, or homeless in the US, and catsup is a vegetable, and everyone is above average.

Really? If I was still teaching I probably would have known that but I retired 17 years ago from teaching and back then I needed to know that stuff.

Poverty was eliminated back in the 80's...........

Not where I was teaching.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Really? If I was still teaching I probably would have known that but I retired 17 years ago from teaching and back then I needed to know that stuff.

Poverty was eliminated back in the 80's...........

Not where I was teaching.

Well, that was the big lie of the times then.......reality was inconvenient.

[rogruth]

Rufus,
I think that last sentence is still true.