Bon Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Does anyone know where this pic is located in Penfield? Dodgeman, Polo, Dobby and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old3dogg Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Wonder if they canceled school that day? Bon and fadedgenes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonlh64 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 It looks like a line of trucks...it can't be the interstate, can it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 It looks like a line of trucks...it can't be the interstate, can it? We have no interstate through Penfield!! We have Routes 255 & 153 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonlh64 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I was thinking of the Penfield exit on 80...but in looking at the picture, this doesn't look very interstatey anyway, does it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 I'm thinking it's either going south of Penfield and its Bundys fields. Starting where the Municipal Building is now and heading towards DuBois. My other thought is up by Johnston Nursery on 153 headed towards I-80/Clearfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doogie67 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Awesome pic. Where did you get it? Have any more? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doogie67 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I remember that year and the snow. My brother had a chevelle that he parked at the end of my dad's circle driveway and we tunneled into it for a fort. It was awesome until my brother found out about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyC Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 now that's some drifting snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 Awesome pic. Where did you get it? Have any more? A friend posted it on FB. We are trying to figure out where it was taken. I'm not from Penfield, I moved here in 89. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Rooster Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Isn't that the railroad tracks right along 255 Jeff and TheFirstNan 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tompepper Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Givin the RR style poles in the right of the picture and what appears to be tracks behind it I would say it is a train.I enlarged the pic and it appears to be a train.and what are the 3 guys and the left carrying? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tompepper Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 It may be a line of school buses cause they didn't call school off a lot in them days.Heck I used to walk to school,bare foot,up hill both ways in 2 feet of snow.they never called it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonlh64 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 I think it's a train, too. I was a teen when that storm hit. Both early '78 and then again that December, on Christmas Eve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shmoopie11 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 From the News-Gazette: The Missouri-Pacific Railroad northeast of Penfield drifted closed by a blizzard, on Jan. 28, 1978. http://www.news-gazette.com/multimedia/photogallery/2014-02-24/archives-winter-black-and-white Bon, I am betting this is near where I lived....that's a straight shot like that with fields. The tracks that are still active are behind the creek. But there is an old railroad grade right along 255 that people 4-wheeler on now. not sure which track this was, but I am betting this is right before Mill Run. Dodgeman and freethot333 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 We had the B&O RR by our house (Caledonia) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorluke Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 How about Penfield, Illinois? Bon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 More on B&W photos ... Last week, The News-Gazette's Facebook page helped reunite families that hadn't touched base in more than 35 years. After we posted a 1978 picture of train engines stuck in a snow drift along what was then the Missouri-Pacific Railroad northeast of Penfield (check it out here), Jared Stanfield wrote that he, too, was stranded that day on an engine between Sidney and Urbana and that "a farmer named ray hudson rescued us with a tractor." Well, guess who saw that post? Ray Hudson's son, Cecil, who responded: "Funny thing when I saw the picture that was the first thing I thought of but I never got any names of the guys he rescued till now." Cecil Hudson, now 59 and farming in southeast Urbana, said his late father Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonlh64 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Wait, is this Penfield PA, or Penfield, IL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 How about Penfield, Illinois? Bingo!!! It sure does look like the Penfield area .. but it's not. I knew this site would figure it out!!! Thanks!! freethot333 and jonlh64 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tompepper Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Penfield Il. The tractor in thr pic is a Cat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shmoopie11 Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Not our Penfield: http://villainslair.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Missouri_Pacific_Railroad_Map1.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted January 9, 2015 Author Share Posted January 9, 2015 Not our Penfield: http://villainslair.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Missouri_Pacific_Railroad_Map1.jpg You were looking at the same stuff I was!! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Pompeii Posted January 9, 2015 Administrators Share Posted January 9, 2015 That was a fun game, wasn't it? One more Is this photo from Dubois, Pa., Dubois Idaho or Dubois, illinois? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ridge Rider Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Remember living thru the blizzard of 78 in southern Michigan. Wind gusts at times hit close to 100 mph. We missed two solid weeks of school. Good times! Bon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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