ALTOONA VISIT Cont.--

Editor’s Note: The camper and I arrived home Sunday but, I have two more views from around the Altoona area I will be sharing. Here’s #2 of 3.

Tyrone, PA: Makenna Wolf ponders the meaning of this memorial to deceased workers of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Tyrone’s downtown park. In 2000 the population was just over 5500, far below the 8800+ souls who lived there in the 1940s when the railroad was at its peak employment in neighboring Altoona just 14 miles down the road.

I remember Tyrone for its gagging, sulfurous smell from the large paper mill operating there during my childhood visits—when I was Makenna’s age.