Raleigh is most likely right on the location, but when I first looked at it, it
reminded me so much of our Harrisburg Pennsylvania Railroad Station in the
1940's.
Many, many times as a kid, I would walk under the railroad bridge spanning
Market Street, awing at those locomotives and trains sitting above me, Purring
away, waiting for their call to duty. WOW! Those were the days when all trains
heading east or west passed through Harrisburg, then known as the railroad
crossroad of America.
But when I looked deeper into the image, the east bound tracks run along side
of the main thoroughfare, I knew it had to be some other beautiful station.
Harrisburg's east bound tracks ran north east towards Philadelphia, Washington
and New York.
Regarding building one like it.
Dick Karnes ( our S track building Meister) is one who could duplicate that
track work, to a T!
In closing, I only wish that I had been more of a railroad camera buff in those
days.
Wow! What I have seen, heard the valves clang, smelled the steam engines smoke,
with cinders in my eye hopped coal cars from Harrisburg to Rutherford yards,
chased by railroad "Dicks" and otherwise, all of this is indescribable, and
now, just a part of my old fading Allison Hill memories of days gone by.
But those were the end of depression days, the start of WWII and an era of my
going on to other things, like girls!
"S"ee ya,
Bill
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