A trio of P&LE 1500 hp switchers works the hump at the Company’s Gateway
Yards in Campbell, Ohio within this picture which includes the retarder
controller building in the left background.
Photo by Robby Beck |
A CSX predecessor, the Chessie System, freight train works its way down
from the New Castle Classification Yards to the P&LE at control point
CP-43, where it enters for a trip down the Little Giant to Its own tracks
again at McKeesport, PA.
Photo by Robby Beck |
Examples of all late-era General Motors locomotive power that the railroad
owned are seen in this snowy spring-day photograph taken at the Pittsburgh
& Lake Erie’s McKees Rocks, PA refueling facility located at the company’s
Diesel Shop.
Photo by Robby Beck |
This picture was taken from the pedestrian bridge between Island Avenue
and the McKees Rocks, Pa Bottoms and shows the P&LE’s yards there, and some
of the manufacturing facilities
located on Neville Island in the background.
Photo by Robby Beck |
Typical Western Pennsylvania railroading is seen here with a P&LE coal
drag running along side of a river, with steel tree-covered hills in the
background taken at Layton, PA.
Photo by Robby Beck |
A Port Authority of Allegheny County passenger train operated at various
times by the B&O/Chessie Stem/CSX races along the P&LE right of way on
which it operated on for a majority of its run between Pittsburgh and
McKeesport, PA.
Photo by Robby Beck |
Parked in McKees Rocks to change crews on an empty coal train that
operated over the P&LE between Newell and New England via the trackage
rights from N&W and Gilford, these two engines are part of a power swap
used on the run.
Photo by Robby Beck |
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie coal train heads westbound in the West End section
of the city with the Downtown skyline in the background behind the
ex-Conrail GP-38 which heads the train power.
Photo by Robby Beck
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