One of three summer candidates for junior captain made his qualifying ride on October 8, making a round trip of ten miles between Greenock and Dravo Landing on the Youghiogheny River Trail, part of the Great Allegheny Passage. He is pictured with his stoker at Dravo Landing, by Milepost 25; it was the ninth ride for the stoker, who is five years old. To celebrate the event, the picture is posted in cross-eye freeview stereo (3-D) format. To view it in stereo, get about eighteen inches from your computer screen and cross your eyes. Allow your eyes to then relax slightly until a three-dimensional image appears straight in front of you. Ignore the ghost images on either side. If viewing is difficult, it might help to back off from the screen a little bit. If you can’t view the picture in stereo, it will simply appear as two ordinary pictures.
Roller skating for the winter season has begun, and two fundraising events are coming up. But before those will be a booster ride for the campus ministry at First Trinity Lutheran Church, on the Eliza Furnace Trail and South Side Trail. A total of seven riders are slated to participate, including two veterans (one of them a youth captain) and five first-timers.
A winter visit to the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, south of Cleveland, is in the planning stages. It is hoped that the scenic railroad’s RDC (rail diesel car) will be brought out for the season. There were several pleasant Mileposters visits to ride an RDC car on the Fayette Central Railroad, starting in Uniontown, but the car, which had been borrowed from the B&O Museum in Baltimore, had to be returned.
