Connellsville, Pennsylvania, honors its past

CONNELLSVILLE, Pennsylvania — Thirteen years ago, hundreds of locals lined the streets of the downtown business district of this Fayette County city to see the train arrive … sort of. It was actually a nearly 30,000-pound model railroad display that was being delivered by a massive double-wide tractor-trailer hauling the late Harry Clark’s labor of love back home to Connellsville after spending a few years housed at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort near Farmington.

The move marked the second time Clark’s intricate 25-foot-by-52-foot model railroad display had been moved; the first was when it was moved from the second floor of Clark’s garage to Nemacolin.