P&LE Alco RS-3’s at Montour Junction
Two of Pittsburgh & Lake Erie’s fleet of five
Alco-constructed RS-3 type of road-switcher diesel locomotives head a
westbound train through the railroad’s Montour Junction station located at
Mile Post 10.
Photo Credit: Don Harper photo
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P&LE RS-3 in storage at McKees Rocks
Acquired in October, 1953 from the American
Locomotive Company, P&LE’s RS-3 model road-switcher diesels were all
placed into storage at McKees Rocks, Pa. in late 1966. All remained in
storage until the were disposed of by selling to General Electric Company
as part of a package relating to the purchase of new U-28B class
locomotives for the P&LE.
Photo Credit: Bill Nixon Collection |
P&LE shop goat locomotive X-100016 in action.
Rare picture of P&LE McKees Rocks shop’s goat
locomotive X-100016 in steam, on a turntable with a company Mikado, at one
of the two roundhouses there. Rebuilt from a B-104 class switcher, by
adding a saddle water tank over the boiler, and a small coal bunker in the
locomotive cab, the locomotive lasted until the end of P&LE’s steam
operations in 1953.
Photo Credit: Keith Krouse Collection |
Montour Railroad locomotive No. 2
Former P&LE RR American-type steam locomotive
No. 9261 was sold to the Montour Railroad, becoming their No. 2. Despite
frequent derailments due to its large 72 inch drivers and Montour’s poor
track work, the locomotive handled all of the railroads passenger trains
until the end of such service in 1927.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
PC&Y Chartiers Avenue bridge
The program to improve Pittsburgh Chartiers &
Youghiogheny Railway’s operations required a lot of ingenuity to keep the
railroad and local traffic running despite extensive reconstruction of the
line. This picture shows a part of the work necessary to eliminate an
at-grade crossing on Chartiers Avenue. More details of the structure will
be found in Kahndog’s upcoming book, ENGINE FOR
CHANGE.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
H-9 class Mikado freight locomotive #9593
PMcK&Y-owned H-9 class Mikado freight
locomotive #9593 passes United Sates Steel Corporation's huge National
Tube plant, (at the time the largest pipe-making facility in the world),
as it heads eastbound on P&LE's main line at McKeesport, Pa. in July,
1950. More may be found about the locomotive in Kahndog Publications P&LE's
Mikado's, and additional information about National Tube in our book
P&LE's Gondola's.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
Monongahela Railway doodlebug M-40
Ex-P&LE railroad doodle bug, now Monongahela
Railway’s M-40 is seen at Brownsville, Pa. Union Station getting ready for
a trip heading southward into West Virginia. More information about the P&LE’s
subsidiary may be found in THE MONONGAHELA
RAILWAY, ITS HISTORY AND OPERATIONS available through Kahndog
Publications.
Photo Credit: John King Collection |
Detroit Edison train at J&L South Side Pittsburgh
tunnel.
A Detroit Edison-owned empty unit train heads
eastbound though Pittsburgh’s South Side section at Control Point CP1Y as
it approaches the P&LE’s only tunnel, which passes under a J&L steel
plant. The maker CP1Y means that it is the train control point located 1
mile into the P&LE’ s Youghiogheny Division, east of the railroad’s
Pittsburgh Terminal dispatching office.
Photo Credit: Robbie Beck photo |
Detroit Edison train at J&L Aliquippa Works.
An eastbound empty Detroit Edison unit train
approaches the giant Aliquippa Works of LTV Steel (formerly J&L Steel) as
it heads for delivery to the Monongahela Railway at Brownsville Junction,
Pa.
Photo Credit: Joe Jack photo
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Monongahela Railways GP-38-2 No. 2002
Freshly painted Monongahela Railways GP-38-2
sits outside of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie’s McKees Rocks, Pa. Diesel Shop
as it awaits return to its home line. More about the Monongahela Railways
locomotives may be found in Kahndog’s upcoming book entitled
LOCOMOTIVES OF THE MONONGAHELA RAILWAY
Photo Credit: Robbie Beck photo |
Wisconsin Power & Light train at Pittsburgh
An eastbound Chessie System freight train is
about to pass an empty Wisconsin Power & Light unit train heading back to
mines for loading, in front of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie’s Pittsburgh
Terminal Building.
Photo Credit: Robbie Beck photo
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Monongahela
Railway cabooses
Monongahela Railway specially-painted American
Bicentennial caboose is seen flanked by more mundane units in standard
Monongahela Railway painting scheme. More information about the railroad
and its equipment can be found in THE
MONONGAHELA RAILWAY, ITS HISTORY AND OPERATIONS available through
Kahndog Publications.
Photo Credit: Ron Legg photo
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