{"id":5258,"date":"2008-10-01T09:44:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T13:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2008-10-02T09:48:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T13:48:24","slug":"authors-ask-local-residents-to-share-rr-history-during-%e2%80%98meet-the-authors%e2%80%99-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=5258","title":{"rendered":"Authors ask local residents to share RR history during \u2018Meet the Authors\u2019 event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This year Farm\/City Day is moving back to downtown Tyrone and the Tyrone Area Historical Society will be apart of the festivities.
\nA booth will be set up along Pennsylvania Avenue, but a special event will take place at the Tyrone History Museum.
\nFour local authors will be on hand for a book signing under canopies outside, weather permitting.
\nThe authors include Luther Gette, David Seidel, Jeffrey L. Adams and Paula Zitzler.
\nOne featured book will be Rails to Penn State: The Story of the Bellefonte Central which was published last year.
\nAuthor Michael Bezilla, who is unable to attend the event, said co-author Luther Gette will be available Saturday for the book signing.
\nRails to Penn State chronicles the history of the Bellefonte Central Railroad, a line that primarily served State College.
\nHowever, according to Bezilla, from 1930 to 1933 the Bellefonte Central offered daily train service between Bellefonte and Tyrone via State College and Warriors Mark.
\nThe Bellefonte Central Railraod interchanged freight cars with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Nealmont where the site of the railroad\u2019s locomotive turntable can still be seen. It then took express cars directly to the PRR\u2019s Tyrone passenger station.
\nWhile this book does talk about the Tyrone area, Bezilla said area railroad enthusiasts may be even more interested in an upcoming book he and Gette are working on about the railroad history of Centre County.
\nWork on the upcoming book, which is sponsored by the Centre County Historical Society, began about two years ago.
\nResearch and writing are still in progress, and a publication date will be announced later.
\nThe book commemorates the 150th anniversary of the start-up of the county\u2019s first railroad, the Bellefonte and Snow Shoe, in 1859; but will include the histories of all common-carrier lines in Centre County from that date to the present time.
\nFor many years, the hub of Pennsylvania Railroad operations in Centre County was actually in Tyrone, headwarters of the PRR\u2019s Tyrone Division, which consisted of the Bald Eagle Branch, the Lewisburg and Tyrone Branch and various other lines that served the coal fields to the north in the Moshannon Valley.
\nBezilla, of Lemont, is managing editor and co-author of the forthcoming railroad history of Centre County.
\nGette, a Philipsburg native, is a specialist in the history of the Tyrone and Clearfield Railway, which linked its two namesake towns via Osceola Mills and Philipsburg. It later became the PRR\u2019s Cleafield Branch.
\nHe grew up watching trains along the branch, has written several magazine articles on the old T&C and has interviewed retirees who operated trains over that line.
\nIn the course of their research, Bezilla and Gette are uncovering much information about Tyrone area\u2019s railroad history. Bezilla said he and Gette are interested in hearing stories of the railroad and hopes the \u201cMeet the Author\u201d forum at the history museum will provide an opportunity for local residents to share their experiences.
\nAutographed copies of Rails to Penn State will be available for purchase at the Tyrone History Museum during Farm\/City Day this Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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