Push-me, Pull-you

Turn the calendar back to November 8, 1954, go down to the river bank at

Paxinos, Pennsylvania, and watch Pennsylvania Railroad’s train S-390 go by. In this picture the train is being pulled by Baldwin-built Decapod 4644. It is pulling 119 cars and two more Decapods (numbers 4629 and 4639) are pushing them. Paxinos is Northumberland County, Pennsylvania about the middle of the eastern third of state. Paxinos, founded in 1769, was named for a Shawanee Native American chief. The town is known in the area for its music store, which has a distinctive mural of a guitar player. You can see the mural in the circle on the cover of their facebook page. Today the Shamokin Valley Railroad has a station in Paxinos. This railroad has four interchanges with other railroads: Norfolk Southern Interchange, Canadian Pacific Interchange, the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern Interchange and the Lycoming Valley RR, North Shore RR, Union County Industrial RR Interchange. It also has four other train stations in Sunbury, Weigh Scales, Shamokin, and Carbon Run Pennsylvania.

The post card is published by Audio-Visual Designs in Earlton, New York. It was published after October of 1983 because the Zip Code contains the 5-digit plus 4-digit identification system. I have 333 post cards published by Audio-Visual Designs; by far, this is the largest group in my collection.