Thursday Proto Photo, Dec 15/11

[Lenny53]

[pwnj]

The tower?  The tower?  Rapunzel.  Rapunzel!

[Bob Bufkin]

Finally managed to scan a few old Poliroid pics which are in bad shape.  This is the best I could manage to clear them up.

PC Pennroad tower, early 70's.





Reading Lurgan tower located a couple miles from Pennroad.  This is where the Reading and WM joined.

[Bremner]

The tower?  The tower?  Rapunzel.  Rapunzel!

I don't know what I like more....the F, the ALCO, the tower or the old Chevy

[pwnj]

But wait, there's more!

[lv4142003]

Lehighton Tower with a LV train coming off the CNJ line to Packerton, ( with CNJ power mixed in). Love it! When was it taken? If anyone reads TRP magazine, Mike Bednar has an ongoing series about railroad life in the Lehigh Valley (LV - CNJ - LNE - LHR etc.). If I'm not mistaken Mike worked this tower and took a lot of interesting shots out of those windows.

[pwnj]

Haha!  Thank you!!! I've been trying for a while to figure out where this was taken.  I thought it was Jersey, but that was it.  Dad took it, not sure when, but I'll check my archives and see what it says.  From the other photos in this set I'm guessing this was right after PC came to be.  Here's a few more:











Another shot in the series has my older brother standing on a crumbling train platform next to the tracks, looking to be about 4 or 5, so that would put these in 71 or 72, but I could be wrong.

UPDATE: And I just confirmed that the photos were taken from the platform at Lehighton Depot, across the tracks.  There's even a photo of that funky tall angled truss bridge (the CNJ main, crossing over).

[lv4142003]

Hey, how about showing the rest of those Lehighton photos! Joe

[pwnj]

Here's the only other one I have access to right now.  A shot from the platform with the CNJ bridge.