Transportation
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In Osage, transportation included buses running every fifteen minutes, horse and buggies, a few cars driving on the sidewalks, and crowds of people walking the train tracks, while a train ran down the middle of the street. The railroad was considered a blessing because people could pick up coal from the tracks to heat their homes. During World War II, four hundred cars a day left Osage full of coal, and later in the 1950s people recalled hopping trains to get home from swimming at the Shack or to ride over to the Osage dance hall.
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Osage, West Virginia · United States
