During World War Two, troop trains stopped in the Slate Belt, linking local people and places to the wartime home front. Those associated with this scene include Jacob Horace Strunk, Mona Lloyd Strunk, Aldo Ray (Da Re), Earl "Pops" Voorhees, Russell C. Wilgus, Helen Henderson Wilgus, a conductor, Joseph V. Gloria, Morris Metz, John "Jack" Davis, Donald M. Jones, Doris Holland Blake, Robert Blake, Melvin "Brick" Blake, Jacob W. Trone, Maryella Correll, Matt Sabatine, William Hendershot, Thomas Lee, Joe LaValva, Sal LaValva, John LaValva, James Underwood, Alfred Nastasi, Pasquale "Pat" Catino, James "Kitty Car" Wynne, Charles Blake, Dr. Stewart G. Wolf, Betty Allen Doney, Robert Doney, George H. Shook, Amelia Blaine Shook, Sam Brumbaugh, June Baskwill Sabatino, Anna Marsh Underwood, Wilmer "Boom" Hill, Burdell "Birdie" Hontz, and George Branch.