I’ve seen lots of old B&W photos but this is the first I’ve seen it in color. This place is a model railroader’s dream, with all those steel trestles and vintage buildings, etc:
Very cool! I also wasn’t aware of this website, which also looks intriguing …
Shorpy is an amazing treasure trove of great old photos! Many of them are from large, glass plate negatives, which have tremendous clarity and detail.
Ray Dunakin said:
Shorpy is an amazing treasure trove of great old photos! Many of them are from large, glass plate negatives, which have tremendous clarity and detail.
You know anyone who goes there will be gone a month at least.
This is one of my favorite railroad photos from there, everything a model railroader could ask for inspiring an obviously toy-like scene on layout,
http://www.shorpy.com/node/8151?size=_original#caption
See also for passenger platform right outside tunnel portal:
“New passenger station 1899 replaced one that burned. The station closed when the New Jersey Cut-Off was opened in 1912. Two single track tunnels 975 feet long connected Delaware and Manunka Chunk with Bridgeville, Oxford Furnace and Washington. A wood tower for Pennsylvania Railroad interchange washed out in 1913 when embankment washed away and was relocated further west along hill. The tower was closed 1948 and the double track removed from Washington to Manunka Chunk in 1942.”
http://dlw-oldmain.tripod.com/manunka.html
I like this source for The Detroit Publishing Co. Many of the Shorpy pics are Detroit Publishing pics too.
I enter ‘railroad’ in the searches, you can be more specific.