NS is removing the Intermediate Position Light Signals on the PRR main this summer. This video shows the sad routine in Derry, PA. The entire bridge is freed and lifted away as one unit, then cut up aside the tracks. The fellow who posted the video wrote that the bridge was installed in 1943, and was for years the westbound home signal for DR Tower and its interlocking.
Indeed sad. And again I note- Please stand away from your video camera, with the DSLR! That shutter banging is beyond annoying and quite unnecessary. (As is listening to your chit-chatting in the background. Bleh.)
"My Cousin Vinny" is one of my all-time favorites, too. SO funny when she gets on the stand and does her thing! The oil filter on that 1961 Chevy is the old canister style before they changed to the cartridge type. My 1959 Chevy was like that, too, until I got a conversion kit and changed it. The newer style was/is messy enough but the older... Doug
My best guess is Thomas, Henry and Robert at the Holly Sugar plant in Delta, Colorado, south east of Grand Junction sometime in the 1920s. The bobber gondolas were used to move the crushed beet pulp out of the plant after all the sugar juice was pressed out of it.
I believe he was referring to these swivel pedestal seats. I suppose workers could ride on the way to a job site with the wind blowing in their hair and rain beating on their faces.
Oh, my mistake. I didn't see those. Thanks. Yeah, that would be a wild place to ride even at slow speed!
This isn't my photo and I'm uncertain who took it, but it's a beautiful composition as found on the Anthracite Railroads Historical Society's website. It was taken at Lehigh Gap, PA on the Lehigh River, probably in the mid-1960s. Those are former PRR RS-11s. The LV main is gone here today. That's the Lehigh & New England's viaduct crossing the river, removed in 1967 after the L&NE shut down in 1961. Across the river is the CNJ's mainline which is intact today and operated by NS.
Wow! Great shot, Dan. They always make me sad, however, thinking about what has transpired between then and now as in your description. Doug
Yes it is! Buzzed through there on Tuesday on my way home and had to stop to see it. She is looking a little worse elsewhere, some paint is peeling here n there. But overall it is in good shape.
