Norman Weiler wrote: > NOTE: This message had contained at least one image attachment. > To view or download the image(s), click on or cut and paste the > following URL into your web browser: > > > http://lists.railfan.net/listthumb.cgi?erielack-09-02-08 > > branchville-snow-scene.jpg (image/jpeg, 512x448 56035 bytes, BF: 4.09 ppb) > > For those who are curious... > > The white-sided cars in the Branchville snow scene ARE optical illusions, as someone suggested. The rails swing to the left, just behind the first car -- so that's all you can see of the actual train. White car #1 is actually snow and trees in the distance, beyond the station, with the lower darkness being the elevated station platform. The darkness above is actually the intricately carved roof supports (there's a name for those...Dave?) I've always called them trefoil design eaves brackets, but an architect might have a more correct term. What I find curious about those eaves brackets is that they have been called a 'Lackawanna trademark' even though I know of only 3 station on the DLW who sported them. One is Branchville, one Franklin, and one... (Drum Roll...) Pre-1905 Boonton Everyone go look carefully and you'll notice that Jamesburg, NY and Stewartsville, NJ have similar eaves brackets, but that they are just plain circles, not trefoils. Dave - -- Sussex Branch Tales - A book by Dave Rutan Get yours now! http://books.cafepress.com/item/sussex-branch-tales/281959517 The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List http://EL-List.railfan.net/ To Unsubscribe: http://Lists.Railfan.net/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------ End of EL Mail List Digest V3 #2857 ***********************************
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