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From Santa Fe to BNSF, these tracks have served the west for over 100 years and counting.
Allentown, AZ - November 7, 2019.
Late 17th century altar rails ornamented with simple cherubs at Ravenstone.
St Michael's church at Ravenstone is largely hidden amongst the trees of its leafy churchyard. It is a mainly 14th century building with a short broach spire at the west end and a side aisle only on the south side. There are a couple of elements of ancient carving set into the walls of the porch and aisle.
The church is more likely to be kept locked outside services, but we were given a particularly warm welcome here from the charming ladies looking after the church during the open day.
Padded velvet rails for the waterbed arrived a few days back, and I installed them. They make getting in and out of bed a bit easier. The triangular corners at the foot of the bed also give a place to sit. Nice to put on your socks and shoes.
I also cleared off the nightstand and set up the Lava Lite. I felt it belonged. There will not be a blacklight or a Doors poster, though.
Multiple abandoned rails along one block of South Wolfe St. in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. The view is looking south from Thames St. to Fells St. The harbor is a block away to the left.
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Featured Photoist May 7th, 2010
There's always something interesting to see in this city. Recent street resurfacing on Spruce Street has uncovered not only large swaths of the underlying original brick road but also the original (possibly) subway-surface trolley lines, if not just surface lines that used to cover much of Philadelphia suburbs and the city.
If anyone could provide a cite-able date reference for when the roads were last created with bricks as well as when the trolley lines were initially covered up, that'd be great.
Update In trying to determine the age of these tracks, as late as this 1954 map (via www.phillytrolley.org/ ), east/west tracks were still present on Spruce Street as far as 60th to the west and Front St to the east.
In 1932, Spruce ran a continuous line from 60th, down and over the South St. Bridge to Front, back up Lombard, and returning back again over the South St. Bridge.
However, if you go farther back to 1923, starting from the western most turnaround @ 60th Street, it looks like the tracks came east on Spruce until 45th Street, then veered north to Chestnut, leaving an empty patch between 45th and 42nd.
So I'm guessing the line was changed sometime between '23 and '32, making the Route 42 one continuous line from 60th to Front via Spruce St., and removing the sidestep over to Chestnut. My guess was this was done to continue to offer a complete east/west trolley line available on Spruce alone and permitting more vehicular traffic to flow on Chestnut and Walnut where the trolleys only ran east on Chestnut and west on Walnut looping back around 9th St downtown??
That's without researching the history of the El, the automobile, and/or the impact of both on mass transit in Philadelphia.
Pay attention, kids! History can be fun!
A new switch lies on the ground ready to be installed on the CSX Willard Subdivision near Peru Center, Ohio.
I found these rails last spring while trout fishing and searching for the location at which the Lehigh Valley bridge crossed Cowaselon Creek north of Canastota, NY. I think these may in fact be rails from the Elmira, Cortland, & Northern branch of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. There are/were 6 rails total, 5 on the south bank, and one was resting on the north side. At the time it looked as though this area of the creek had been dredged and the rails excavated from the water. The right-of-way is a few hundred feet from where I found them. I hypothesize that after the line from Canastota to Camden, NY was abandoned and scrapped in 1938, the bridge and rails may have remained for some time after. When the bridge was finally scrapped, the rails were tossed in the creek for whatever reason. There are 6 rails total, which seems about what it would take to span the creek. I cannot think of any other explanation as to why 6 rails would be this far away from the highway, on both sides of the creek, and coincidentally in such close proximity to a defunct railroad bed? It would be nice these rails could somehow be verified as belonging to the Lehigh, and preserved by some type of historical group. If I make it back this spring, I will update if I find any identifying marks.
DHH giving his talk over Skype. With all those Mac laptops and his big face it looks like a weird Apple commercial of some kind.