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All the crews come out of Clearfield. Normal train crew is one at the throttle and one in a pickup truck tagging along, making sure the grade crossings are working, inspecting the trains as they pass, etc. Branches to work? Well, there's Clearfield to Clymer, Clearfield to Cresson, Clearfield to Kea...

I'll see your still shot of a former NYC trestle and raise you a video shot of a former NYC trestle, this one at McGee's Mills where the line crosses over the former PRR Clearfield & Jefferson RR line to Punxsutawney and a little beyond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYGSNvqPPBI&t=247s

Cherry Tree Monument.jpg Officially it's a picture of the Cherry Tree Volunteer Fire Company in front of the Cherry Tree Monument (marking the actual junction of Cambria, Clearfield and Indiana Counties before the Borough of Cherry Tree was created). Unofficially the picture is being photobombed in...

Well, it wasn't as "Wild West" as DRG&W construction crews trading gunfire with AT&SF construction crews. By the turn of last century, things had gotten somewhat civilized (although the PRR and NYC&HR were still battling each other via tariffs). Out in the hinterlands, where th...

If you're thinking the buildings look like PRR designs, that's because they are. The PRR built the line in 1905-06 and was then reimbursed 50% by the NYC. NYC maintained the line, getting reimbursed 50% by the PRR. Both railroads ran their own trains over the line. Even though accessible only via PR...

Here's Wandin (originally Possum Glory Jct.) on the Cherry Tree & Dixonville (still a separate corporate entity, complete with its own Time Table, even though its owners had since merged to become Penn Central). Wandin1 4-70 E Roy Ward.JPG The station building is a former PRR NX-23 war emergency...

Today they spotted seven carloads of rail on the former Kinport Industrial Track (former Susquehanna Extension Branch). Later in the afternoon a dump truck operating on the rails came through towing a string of track cars loaded with new crossties. Gonna be doing some work on the line between Cherry...

The connecting track between the NYC and PRR at McGee's Mills for the original PRR routing to Rossiter had interesting station names at both ends. Where it branched off of the NYC it was called PRR Jct., and where it connected to the PRR was called NYC Jct. Actually, the track and switch are still i...

In case you're curious, the "CB" in CB Junction came from the New York Central's Curwensville & Bower (C&B) RR which was built to connect the original Beech Creek (BC) RR with the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh (BR&P) RR. Coming northward from Mahaffey, the C&B left th...

Trackage rights On the PRR: Indiana/Clearfield County Line located south of the yard at Stifflertown just north of Cherry Tree Borough) southward through the wye heading west to Block Limit Station CJ. Gave access to jointly-owned/operated Cherry Tree & Dixonville RR. Indiana/Clearfield County ...

From assorted pictures on-line, one can assume that all of the PA-1s arrived with bare noses but some (all?) were subsequently given nose bells in a notch on the fireman's side.

How many PA-1s did the NKP have? How many received nose bells? When did this occur?

Interesting. I suppose the Borough of Jim Thorpe is going to teach the evil railroad a lesson.

Dumb, dumb, and dumber still. Talk about cutting off one's nose to spite one's face.

Local governments have done stupid things before.

Is there any good source for pics of that area back then, a book maybe, or local library? Few and far between, unfortunately. What received the attention was the Main Line activity, not some backwoods branch up in the hills - nothing glamorous about that, especially when it was a branch of a branch...