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Good afternoon, I don't have any photo's to add for street running trains but I do remember when my wife and I first moved to Clearfield PA in 1988.

We where a bar downtown on a Saturday evening having some buffalo wings which were the rage at that time. As we were enjoying our wings and washing them down with some cold beers the entire building began to rumble and the rumbling kept getting more intense.

We looked around and nobody else in the bar seem to be alarmed by this, so now we are thinking maybe we should stop with the beers.

As the rumbling continued we went to the front door and was greeted by a Conrail engine crew that was asking about moving cars from the street so they could go thru.

Like a couple of tourist we stood there in front of the bar and watched the entire coal train go up thru town.

The waitress that was working our table thought we cut out without paying and was glad to see us when we came back in the bar.

It was only a couple of years later the track up this street was removed and the street was repaved.

It was still a neat sight to see the train coming up the street.

 

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