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It's amazing the things you can do if there's no pesky safety regulations to stop you. You'd better hold on tight. One wrong buck and you'll be mincemeat, either in the auger tracks or the chain drive behind.
For you train lovers. This is in Renovo, PA 30 miles north of Lock Haven along the West Branch of the Susquehanna. It is just 12 miles north of Hyner View. If you were at Truckstock 2020 we drove through Renovo. The town of Renovo was built for and by the Philadelphia & Erie Railroad as the midpoint between Philadelphia and Erie. It was incorporated in 1866.
Philly and Erie were then incorporated into the Pennsylvania Railroad. The major employer was the Pennsylvania Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad shops. The shops were a massive complex, stretching from one end of town to the other, containing a 25 rail freight classification yard, service shops for diesel and steam locomotives, and even its own coal power plant.[4] As long as the Railroad prospered, the town was a bustling center of activity. Some aspects of railroad business began to decrease as early as before World War II, but business surged back strongly during the War.
However, further decline in demand for both passenger and freight transportation and the surge of automobile ownership and truck use for hauling, and the consolidation of the Pennsylvania Railroad's Shop facilities to other locations such as Pittsburgh and Altoona caused the PRR to close of the shops. And in the 1960s it tolled the death knell for Renovo. Its present population is less than 2,000; it was once around 5,000.
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