Catawissa, PA: Caboose Motel/Reading Depot

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Street View, Jul 2025

Street View, Jul 2025

Walter Gosciminski posted 23 photos with the comment:

Welcome to my home Borough. 

14 Railroad Cabooses on display

Restored from Conrail to the original Railroad Company 

 Free to the public to visit. 

Next to Whistle Stop Fence 

119 Pine Street Catawissa Pa 17820

14 Railroad cabooses for sale 

Text me at 570.356.234five 

$35,0000 each or best offers

The Train Station restaurant is for rent

This is from someone who sees a good thing ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

From Joanne Long

....Kevin Ferris as someone who has worked for a Chamber of Commerce, business development organization, and downtown Revitalization group, Catawissa was sitting on a gold mine with Wally's trains.  There are so many events that would bring many consumer dollars to Catawissa if the town used the trains and station as the center attraction.  Catawissa has a well-known Halloween parade that brings Commerce to the town for one day; Wally's trains and train station would bring Commerce to the town for at least one entire season. People are blind to the revenue Wally's Treasures could have brought to that town. It's a shame.

Walter Gosciminski shared with the comment:

Welcome to the Catawissa Train Station 

Free to visit

Catawissa Pa 17820

119 Pine Street

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[Abandoned Reading Rupert Bridge over Susquehanna River.]

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Their website indicates that the railroad was the Pennsy. But the Pennsy is closer to the river and now owned by NS. This would have been the Reading Railroad, which is obviously now abandoned.

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Middletown, PA: Pensy Freight House burned on Oct 30, 2026

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Ted Martin Jr. posted eight photos with the comment: "The old train station in Middletown.."

Don Winner: Old Penn Central Freight Station, 39 Wilson St Middletown PA. Fire occurred on Friday afternoon, 30 Oct 2026.

Alexander Mitchell shared with the comment: "Middletown, Pa. PRR freight depot, now history........"

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Street View, Jul 2026

I.e. Xam commented on Alexander's share
i took this in 2013

Stephanie Schwab commented on Alexander's share
This past Monday [Oct 26, 2026]...

Bryson City, NC: Great Smoky Mountains Railroad/Southern Depot and Turntable

Depot: (Satellite)

Turntable: (Satellite)

Street View, Jun 2019

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Dave Kuntz Drone Photos posted four photos with the comment: "GSMR car shop in Bryson City NC.  This is where the tourist railroad refurbishes passenger cars and by the looks of it they are converting one to be 'open air'."

David Spraul: A incredible beautiful ride.

We’ve done it 3 times.

Berkley Derrick: The gutted car to the right of the Laurel is the Pee Wee, which is/was one of the coach class cars. Not sure if it will stay coach class, be turned into an open air or even retain its name, but regardless, it’s having significant renovations done.

NateDogg DaisyMae: NOoooo that’s originally one of the open air cars ! I’m very confused what they are doing to it. It was already one of them.

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Cape Canaveral, FL: Kennedy Space Port and Vehicle Assembly Building

Overview: (Satellite)

Vehicle Assembly Building: (Satellite)

Because they are so big, some of the parts for a rocket are shiped to the Trident Wharf using the RocketShip or the Pegasus Barge. The tall building with the two doors that go all the way up is the Vehicle Assembly building (VAB). (I thought that VAB stood for Vertical Assembly building.) The gravel roads are used by the Mobile Launcher Platforms to move the a rocket from the VAB to a launch pad (e.g. 39a). The low level building on the left is the Launch Control Center. Near the right side of this view is one of the Mobile Launcher Platforms parked in storage.

Street View, Feb 2012

Jorge Piquer, Jan 2023

Shaun McLane, Jul 2013

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"Artist's rendering of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket being stacked inside the Vehicle Assembly Building. (Image credit: NASA)"
"The 525-foot-tall (160 meters) building — the largest single-story structure and the fourth-largest building by volume in the world — was used for 30 years to stack space shuttle orbiters with their boosters and external fuel tanks for 135 missions. Before then, the building's original purpose was to assemble the stages that formed the 363-foot (110 m) Saturn V rockets that launched astronauts to the moon."

CollectSpace
"Wide-angle view down the transfer aisle in the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. (collectSPACE)"

I wonder what the crawler crane is for. The VAB has cranes inside to lift the components of the rocket into place.

Michael Needler, Nov 2018

William Russ posted

Here's a diagram of NASA's Class III railroad at the Kennedy Space Center.

During its first five years of operation, the railroad delivered over 30,000 carloads of aggregate that was used to construct the crawlerway that connected the Vehicle Assembly Building to the launch pads at LC-39. During the Apollo program, the railroad regularly transported the 56 carloads of propellant that was required to fuel each Saturn V rocket.

During the Space Shuttle era the railroad was used to send segments of the reusable solid rocket boosters (SRB) from the Thiokol plant in Utah back again for refurbishment after Space Shuttle launches and recovery. A total of 24 cars were devoted to transporting the SRBs. (source: Wikipedia)