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* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with heat index values around 105.
* WHERE...Portions of east central and southeast Indiana, northeast and northern Kentucky, and central, south central, southwest, and west central Ohio.
* WHEN...Until 8 PM EDT Thursday.
* IMPACTS...Heat related illnesses increase significantly during extreme heat and high humidity events, particularly for those working or participating in outdoor activities.

Friday, November 16th, 2012

Photo by Eric Adams/The Daily Standard

Gondola cars with high enclosed sides were often used to transport coal along the Mann's Creek Railroad, as well as many others in West Virginia, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The car is part of Tom Zitter's collection at his home in Fort Recovery.

Related online story:

Train passion rolls on

FORT RECOVERY - Growing up next to the railway has made a lifelong impact on Tom Zitter.

Zitter, president of Big K Mills, plans to lay roughly a mile of track around his rural Fort Recovery property for a locomotive he is restoring and five train cars he is recreating. [More]

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