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Getting ready

Josiah Adams of the Everett Railroad scrubs down the side of a passenger car at the Hollidaysburg Station on Thursday afternoon in preparation of the Ice Cream Special excursion on Saturday and the Father’s Day Steam into the Cove excursion on Sunday. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski

I can see clearly now

Tree and brush clearing is taking place at the Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark. The Railroaders Memorial Museum and Norfolk Southern are partnering to remove several acres of trees to restore the historic viewshed ahead of the Big Boy locomotive visit on July 11. Mirror photos ...

Spreading out

Ben Yahner of Yahner Brothers Farms, Patton, sprays a corn field with herbicide along Colonel Drake Highway south of Patton on Tuesday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski