 01) Newell Steel Under Frame Wooden Caboose This picture taken at Newell, Pa. in the early 1960s shows one of a number of former P&LE 8-wheel wooden cabooses that were sold to a nearby farmer for use as chicken coops. Theses cabooses, less their trucks, survived into the 21st Century before being demolished. Photo Credit: © Keith Klouse Collection
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 02) Finlay P&LE wooden caboose A former P&LE caboose is about to be moved by Benkart Rigging to the Findlay Township Community Center, located along the Montour Trail in Imperial, Pa. The car has been partly restored and sits adjacent to the Trail, one of two known surviving wooden P&LE steel under frame cabooses. Photo Credit: © Bill Nixon Collection
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 03) P&LE 200 Series Caboose Card The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad’s Historical Record Card for P&LE’s caboose No, 238 started life as a New York Central Railroad caboose in 1917. These cards were maintained for every locomotive, freight and passenger car acquired, to supplement the Accounting Department's records. Photo Credit: © Jack Polaritz Collection
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 04) P&LE Rox Yard This 1930s view of the P&LE’s McKees Rocks Yards shows a number of cabooses awaiting calls to service on the Caboose Ready tracks located at the Yardmasters office. At the time, crews based elsewhere in the system stayed in their cabooses during layovers at the Rox
until trains were available to take them back home. Photo Credit: © Jack Polaritz Collection
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 05) P&LE Wooden Caboose Drawing The P&LE operated with a fleet of all-wood, four-wheel “bobber” cabooses until the 1920s, when they were replaced with eight-wheel cabins that were constructed with a steel under frame for crew safety. Photo Credit: © Jack Polaritz Collection
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 06) P&LE Caboose Hop at Pittsburgh The eight-wheel, steel under frame cabooses that were not wrecked lasted in-service until the 1960s. This picture from the mid-1950s shows a pair of P&LE GP-7’s and a wooden caboose heading back to McKees Rocks after delivering an ore train to J&L’s South Side works from Youngstown. Photo Credit: © Bill Nixon Collection
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Copy of original P&LE train order Office copy of original
2/11/1879 order dispatching the first trains to ever operate over the
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad between Youngstown and Pittsburgh. Kahndog
Publication’s upcoming book, ENGINE FOR CHANGE, about the P&LE in Beaver
County, will provide more details about the railroad’s construction
and early
operations. Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection
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 08) Monessen Southwestern diesel Pittsburgh Steel’s, (and later Wheeling Pittsburgh’s), Monessen plant was served by the company-owned Monessen Southwestern Railroad, which received and originated all shipments from and to the P&LE and Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway. Here one of their diesel switchers handles hoppers of iron ore received from the P&LE near the plants blast furnaces. Photo Credit: © Keith Krouse Collection
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 09) P&LE train at Ashtabula Ohio The P&LE finally made it the Lake Erie portion of its name after becoming independent from the New York/Penn Central in 1976. Here a P&LE train passes through one of the numerous at-grade crossings in Ashtabula, Ohio on Conrail’s Youngstown-Ashtabula line over which the P&LE reached the Lake Erie port. Photo Credit: © Keith Krouse Collection
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 10) Erie PA units May of 1950 saw a pair of Erie Alco PA units at P&LE Pittsburgh Terminal after having pulled the joint service Erie-P&LE train The Steel King in from Cleveland, Ohio. Photo Credit: © J. J. Young Jr.
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 11) P&LE 1501 at Pittsburgh P&LE’s Pittsburgh - College commuter train is made ready for its evening trip back to the Beaver Valley at the railroad’s Pittsburgh Terminal in this cold 1979 view. More about this train will be found in
Kahndog’s upcoming book, Engine for Change, which tells the history of the P&LE in Beaver County. Photo Credit: © Bill Metzger
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 12) NYC Hudson locomotive While rare, gorgeous streamlined Hudson steam locomotives, such as the No. 5455, ran over the P&LE on joint-service P&LE/New York Central passenger service between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Photo Credit: © Sy Herring photo
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