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Jan 2008

Welcome to our January 2008 Historical Railroad monthly Photo Gallery.

We hope you enjoy these old black & white & color images.

A night view of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad's home office. A night view of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad's home office and Pittsburgh Terminal building. The lights illuminating the structure were added after the site had become a part of the Pittsburgh History and Landmark's Station Square retail-office project.

Robbie Beck photo

Wreck on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Main Line at Colona.

No one was injured in this wreck on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Main Line at Colona, just east of Monaca, Pa. The 8475 was repaired and put back into service, and the engineer was briefly suspended for his inattention.

P&LE RR photo
 

Record card for the caboose which was hit and burned & later destroyed.

This Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Historical Record Card for a home-built wooden caboose which burned after being hit by a locomotive - see picture at left.

The former Pennsylvania Railroad 34th Street Yard in Pittsburgh

The former Pennsylvania Railroad 34th Street Yard in Pittsburgh's South Side now belonged to the LTV Steel Corporation's Monongahela Connecting Railroad when this picture was taken in 1986.

 Bill Carnahan photo

 Jones & Laughlin South Side Works

This view of the Jones & Laughlin South Side Works includes a view of their blast furnaces in Hazelwood and the twin bridges that linked the plants. Included within this picture is P&LE's single track main emerging from the line's only tunnel, which was constructed to allow the steel company to build at this location.

 Bill Carnahan photo

Storm curtains open on a steam train.

The curtains could be draw aside when the cold and precipitation wasn't bad, or to allow access to the cab.
Storm curtains are a modeling detail not generally found on model layouts, but were a fact of life during the steam-era on the railroads.

P&LE RR photos
 

Storm curtains on a steam train closed for winter weather.

All buttoned-up for winter operation, the P&LE added storm curtains to its steam locomotives in late fall to protect the crews from rain, snow and cold of Pittsburgh's nasty weather.

P&LE RR photos

End of a Flexi-Van on a train car.

View of the rear doors for a trailer that was part of a fleet of twenty-five Flex-Vans that the P&LE Railroad experimented with in a brief effort to develop piggyback service.

P&LE RR photos

Profile view of a P&LE car - double Flexi-Van.

A profile view of a brand-new Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Flexi-Van was taken at the company's Pittsburgh Terminal coach storage yard along the Monongahela River.

P&LE RR photos

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