Welcome to our monthly photo gallery of historic railroad images in color and black and white. This month we have 8 pictures for you - enjoy.

A pair of Montour Railroad diesels works the Champion coal processing plant of the Pittsburgh Coal Company located in North Fayette Township, PA just off US Route 22. Joe Jack photo	A P&LE Mikado heads a westbound freight train headed for McKees Rocks past the railroad's Pittsburgh Terminal. The head-end crew being careful to minimize the smoke that the locomotive is making, as the Allegheny County Pollution Control Officer is watching from Grant Building seen right across the river in Downtown Pittsburgh. Jack Polaritz Collection
A P&LE passenger backing up for servicing at McKees Rocks after bringing in a train from Youngstown to the company's Pittsburgh Terminal passes a Bulldog doing switching to a customer in the city's West End. J J Young photo	The only Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad model U-25B diesel locomotive to receive the entire proposed "official" paint scheme #2818 sits in front of the company's Diesel Shop facility at McKees Rocks, Pa. Jack Polaritz photo
Heading eastbound over P&LE's brand new CTC, and Erie Class K-5 can make a claim for being one of the most beautiful Pacific-type 4-6-2 steam locomotives ever built. Jack Polaritz Collection	A B&O Railroad mighty "Big Six" locomotive on a westbound freight train over the P&LE has been pulled at McKees Rocks to repair a hot box. Clarence Jones photo
When the McKeesport and Belle Vernon Railroad first opened for business it lacked turning facilities on the end of the line and had to back locomotive power on the head end of trains from McKeesport to Fayette City, Pa., as No. 19 is doing in this picture. Jack Polaritz Collection	McKeesport & Belle Vernon locomotive No. 12 has arrived with the first passenger train into Fayette City, Pa. and is greeted by throngs of people wanting to be a part of history. Jack Polaritz Collection

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