Pittsburgh & Lake Erie RR 4-4-0 No. 23 was the railroad’s locomotive for hauling the company’s business cars and for use as an inspection locomotive by officials. It was used to make the first “official” trip over the P&LE’s new Ohio River Bridge in 1910, the image taken during this event will be included in Kahndog’s upcoming publication ENGINE FOR CHANGE.

Jack Polaritz Collection

Bessemer & Lake Erie RR Pacific #904 graces the head end of a passenger train stopped at the railroad’s Greenville, Pa. station in 1950.

Jack Polaritz Collection
 

Specialty flat car custom built for use in the steel industry by the Briggs & Turvis Company’s salvage/reconstruction facility located along the Montour Railroad in Findlay Township at the site of today’s Park West office complex at the Montour Run Interchange of the Parkway West.

Jack Polaritz Collection

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Mountain-type steam locomotive No. 5654 rides a turntable at the railroad’s New Castle, Pa. facilities. This type of locomotive was designed for dual-service applications and was frequently seen on P&LE’s tracks on express trains.

Mike Petterson photo

An obvious rebuild from a wooden box car, this conversion by the P&LE’s McKees Rocks shops for service as an interchange/local service caboose was unusual in that it had platforms added to the car ends.

P&LE RR Photo

Originally constructed as steel underframe box car No. 31658, it is surprising to see that its conversion to a caboose was not made until after World War II, in September, 1946. While many railroads made such conversions during the war because of materials shortages, P&LE waited until a year after the War to rebuild box cars into cabooses.

Jack Polaritz Collection
 

P&LE 1501 with passenger car

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The last hot metal movement of hot iron from the J&L blast furnaces located in the Hazelwood section of Pittsburgh moves over the Monongahela Connecting Railroad’s Hot Metal Bridge over the Monongahela River to the company’s Open hearth furnaces in the South Side of the city for conversion to steel.

Richard McCombs Collection