A couple of months ago, there was an article in the Pa. Game News about hunters traveling from the Pittsburgh area to the Medix Run area circa 1920. They caught a train from Pittsburgh to DuBois on Saturday then took the Hunters Special train from DuBois, through Sabula and Penfield and on toward Medix on Sunday. The train stopped just about anywhere to let guys and their gear off. The authors crew got off at Medix and hiked up and over the mountain top to their camp near the headwaters of some of the streams on the Clearfield side of the mountain. Some farmer had hauled their food in from that side.
I wondered why they didn't come in from that side too, then I realized that to get from Pittsburgh to Clearfield by train would mean traveling way east then coming back north and west. Pgh. to DuBois and Medix was a much shorter route and time.
Dale
