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Smith Yard at the Railroaders Memorial ... Museum dedicated its newly renovated rail yard to Altoona native Luther G. Smith. A Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive engineer, Smith is lauded for ...
Dave Seidel was nostalgic for the old Pennsylvania Railroad ... sights and sounds” of the shifter steam engines in the Altoona yards as seen from foot bridges over the tracks in town ...
ALTOONA, Penn., Aug. 31.—Train No. 39, the Pittsburg express of the Pennsylvania Railroad, composed of two ... to carry the booty several hundred yards from the cars into the darkness of the ...
ALTOONA, Pa. (WJAC) — The Railroaders Memorial Museum ... bring that human touch to this part of history. And without the railroad, there would be no Altoona. "Altoona and Blair County have ...
The museum, in the renovated former Pennsylvania Railroad Master Mechanics Building, shows the movie Altoona at Work ... ceremony is set for the museum’s yard at 7 p.m. Santa will appear ...