Another point: The Nite-Kraft factory in the background, later Champ hats, was just demolished a few weeks ago, in late spring 2012. Can you imagine your job being to sit in a little shed for eight hours, and go out in the street and hold up a sign and flag when a train is coming, because they didn't allow whistle blowing through town? That's the "good ol' days" of "full employment" of the 1950s for you!

this train, from its appearance, is 99% guaranteed to be daily local s71 running from northumberland to selinsgrove junction, then out the selinsgrove industrial to the pp&l power plant in shamokin dam (the coal hoppers) and out the line to selinsgrove, middleburg, and/or mcclure(the boxcars at the front). out-and-back locals replaced through trips over the line to and from lewistown in 1953; the prr abandoned the track between mcclure and maitland in 1957.

a great period photo