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

[Roy]

Seeing a model of that engine pulling a couple of period passenger cars going through the middle of the street in a small town on a layout would be more interesting that watching a 4 ft long big boy on a layout.

More about the C.V.R.R. Pioneer:
https://freechaptersinbooks.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/the-pioneer-light-passenger-locomotive-of-1851/

[HONDO74]

I picked up this 1974 Tonka Diorama Model O scale 1/48 1853 Pioneer Train Kit ~ Brand New about 25 years ago at a flea market. Didn't pay a lot for it.

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[Rufus T. Firefly]

I picked up this 1974 Tonka Diorama Model O scale 1/48 1853 Pioneer Train Kit

There are actually 2 different ones that Tonka did - the other relates to the burning of Chambersburg.

[J. S. Bach]

I have a relatively poor model of a similar paycar:

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It needs some work to make it really presentable.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Pay car model is an Ambroid kit car from a Virginia & Truckee prototype.

The CVRR combine car is at the PRR museum in Strasburg.

[J. S. Bach]

Pay car model is an Ambroid kit car from a Virginia & Truckee prototype.

Thank you, I did not know that. Note also that it is just resting on mis-matched trucks for the photo shoot. I beieve that I have a suitable set of Lobaughs for it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Pay car model is an Ambroid kit car from a Virginia & Truckee prototype.

Thank you, I did not know that. Note also that it is just resting on mis-matched trucks for the photo shoot. I beieve that I have a suitable set of Lobaughs for it.

A set of Lobaughs would put the weight where it's probably needed, too.

[J. S. Bach]

A set of Lobaughs would put the weight where it's probably needed, too.

Exactly, that was one of my thoughts; for its size, it is really quite light.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

1914 Shippensburg basketball team

[healey36]

Very few substitutions on that team...iron men.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Very few substitutions on that team...iron men.

Seems that most of the photos of the sports teams of this era carried a minimal rosters + 1-2 more.

Now we have entire mobs on the sidelines at college football games......

[rogruth]

Very few substitutions on that team...iron men.

Seems that most of the photos of the sports teams of this era carried a minimal rosters + 1-2 more.

Now we have entire mobs on the sidelines at college football games......

Back in those days they usually could play any position on a team AND they played all of the time unless they broke something.

[Roy]

Basketball is so irritating, so stupefyingly boring, and is played by such horrifyingly ugly people, that it must be a level of Dante's hell.

[rex desilets]

Basketball is so irritating, so stupefyingly boring, and is played by such horrifyingly ugly people, that it must be a level of Dante's hell.

Sign of the apocalypse...vigorously agreeing with Roy

[healey36]

NBA playoff basketball is pretty good...the games actually mean something at this point.

Like all professional sports, we've collectively grown numb to the skills demonstrated on the court/diamond/grid-iron. Try hitting an NBA 3-pointer three-out-of-four, or catch a major league fly-ball hit to the deep outfield, or catch a sixty-yard pass (even without some guy hanging all over you).

Of course, none of it is worth $30+ million per year to do it.