Aerial view of P&LE main line passing the Rockwell Corporation's spring
plant located in Moon Township, adjacent to Coraopolis, Pa. in the early
1950s.
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Aerial view: Looking eastward from Rochester - Monaca toll bridge at
Freedom, Pa. and the Ashland Oil refinery located adjacent to the
Pennsylvania RR's tracks leaving Conway Yards, seen in the far right of
the picture.
Jack Polaritz Collection
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March 17, 1936 was a disaster for the Pittsburgh region an for the P&LE
which ran along the area's rivers. A combination of melting snow pack and
heavy rain created the greatest floods ever recorded, and put the terminal
complex under water.
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Montour Railroad's Imperial, Pa. passenger station, the only actual such
facility on the entire railroad, served the community until such service
was discontinued in 1927.
Alice Bolin Collection
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A brace of P&LE RR Alco road switcher diesel locomotives heads a train
westward about to pass the railroad's Montour Junction passenger station
located at Coropolis, Pa.
Don Harper Collection
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New Castle yard and Yardmaster Office
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A view of the Ellwood City to Kopple, Pa. bridge over the P&LE's tracks in
the Beaver Valley. Originally built by the Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler &
New Castle interurban street car line, the bridge was made into a toll
structure after the trolley line folded.
Jack Polaritz Collection
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Winter of 1979 saw the P&LE's GP-7 class diesel locomotive No. 1501
waiting to depart Pittsburgh for the Beaver Valley on a commuter train.
Bill Metzger photo
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