I was down in Dubois, Pa for dinner and drinks at the Doolittle Depot [
https://www.thedepotatdoolittles.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;] . Pretty nice place. When I got out of my car, it smelled like burning coal. I figured the business across the street may have been burning coal. Thought it was appropriate while surrounded with all the railcars.
Yesterday, I found a Rail to Trail path near the hotel called Wolf Run [
http://www.bikekinetix.com/t_pa/pa_rail ... _trail.php] along Rt 219. B&P runs along side of it. As I rode my bike north I came upon a residence that clearly was burning coal. Thick yellow smoke coming out the chimney.
I immediately started wondering what Buffalo[or any other city] must have been like during its peak with homes burning coal along with the railroads locomotives.