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

Postby healey36 » Sat Mar 16, 2019 6:40 pm

Rufus T. Firefly wrote:One more from Lemoyne

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Looks like a shot from the opposite end of the platform (I recognize that upturned drain-pipe looking thing).

Inspection crew, I'm guessing...what's a poling car?

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

Postby robert. » Sat Mar 16, 2019 7:33 pm

A poling car is used to move cars on a parallel track. Place a long timber into a socket on the poling car. then stick it into a socket on the other car and giddy up. your now pushing a car on a parallel track. must of been a little hairy when the timber splinters. :shock:
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Postby robert. » Sat Mar 16, 2019 7:35 pm

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Postby rogruth » Sat Mar 16, 2019 7:40 pm

The poles on a poling car are permanently attached and were to considered to be safer that the poles that would be inserted between sockets.
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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Mon Mar 18, 2019 9:29 am

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

Postby healey36 » Mon Mar 18, 2019 10:33 am

This station has always intrigued me. I presume it stood at the terminus of the Mont Alto Railroad, which I believe ran from a connection with the CVRR near Fayetteville, intended to serve the iron ore fields and furnaces that lie along this stretch of Pennsylvania between Chambersburg and Harrisburg. The Harrisburg & Potomac was another one, subsequently acquired by the Reading, eventually interchanged with the Western Maryland to form the Lurgan Subdivision. A lot of interesting RR history in this area.

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

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:52 am

In Quincy, Pa

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

Postby MurphOnMillerAve » Tue Mar 19, 2019 8:54 am

A perfect little vignette for some lucky model train layout somewhere. :D

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Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Tue Mar 19, 2019 9:48 am

MurphOnMillerAve wrote:A perfect little vignette for some lucky model train layout somewhere. :D


Indeed it is! That little station to the right is just overflowing with detail.
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Re: A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

Postby rogruth » Tue Mar 19, 2019 10:24 am

Yes, that building is interesting. Looks like it may have been built in three sections at different times.
The larger part seems to be an elevator of sorts. I wonder what product?
The building on the left looks like a passenger station and further to the left barely seen may be a freight station.
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Re: A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:13 am

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

Postby rogruth » Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:46 am

Are the tracks in the bottom front of the photo street car or railroad?
That is a very nice station.
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Re: A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Wed Mar 20, 2019 11:05 am

rogruth wrote:Are the tracks in the bottom front of the photo street car or railroad?


Pretty sure that is street car - CG&W Rwy.

That is a very nice station.


Yes! Also has some of the few pictured passenger cars in use at the time.
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Re: A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

Postby Roy » Wed Mar 20, 2019 1:11 pm

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

Postby Rufus T. Firefly » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:19 am

The CVRR station in Winchester, VA

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