Monthly Archives: January 2011 The Buttonwood Covered Bridge is the shortest and most heavily travels of the three remaining historic covered bridges found in Lycoming County Pennsylvania. The bridge was built in 1898 and spans the Blockhouse Creek for a length of 69 feet. The bridge is also known as “Blockhouse Bridge”. The bridge was restored in 1998, receiving...  The Freyberger one-room schoolhouse was built by Jacob Stein for $300 in the 1830′s, though some reports list its build date as circa 1870. It was originally called both the Center School and the Stein School. Classes ceased at the school in 1955 when school district consolidation took over in Pennsylvania. The school was moved...  This is a front view of Conrail locomotive No. 2233 a GP-30 class locomotive built by EMD in April of 1963. Gifted by Julia Sanders to the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in March of 1998. Serviceable. Restored June of 2002 by Norfolk Southern to 1976 Conrail appearance. There is a video available on YouTube that shows...  It was snowing at a rapid clip for a few hours this afternoon so I decided to go out and capture some snowy landscapes. It took me an hour just to get my car out of the parking lot behind my apartment because an ice patch but once I got on the road there seemed...  This one-room schoolhouse was built in 1885 on half an acre of land purchased from farmer Lewis Shelly for $100. The total cost of land, survey, building the school, and furnishings was $1,388.20. It was used by Richland Township schoolchildren until school district consolidation made it obsolete in 1957. The Richland Historical Society purchased the...  Railway Express was a rail freight operation in the early to mid 1900s. In the 1940′s and 1950′s they were a very large customer of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Pittsburgh post office and Railway Express terminal produced over 200 car loads daily for the Pennsylvania Railroad. This scene depicts some of the types of cargo...  One of the hundreds of cells you van view at Eastern State Penitentiary. I really need to get back to the prison and shoot a lot more there. The last time I was there I had just come off of crutches after breaking my leg and technically was still supposed to be using the crutches... |
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