P&LE wrecked caboose No. 207
P&LE home-built caboose No. 207 was one of two units from this class of
ten cabooses constructed in 1950 at McKees Rocks, Pa. Shop that were
destroyed in service and scrapped prior to the demise of the railroad in
1992.
Photo Credit: Mac McGinnis photo |
P&LE caboose No.206
P&LE caboose wears the last of three color schemes that it had in its
years of service on the railroad. Originally painted in box car red when
constructed in 1950, the color became Penn Central green until the P&LE
became an independent railroad in 1976, when the yellow and black scheme
was adopted.
Photo Credit: Bill Nixon Collection
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P&LE 400 series caboose
Rebuilt from a P&LE box car after World War II cabooses like the No. 400
served as local service and transfer cabooses until the railroad
constructed all-steel equipment in the late 1960s.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
P&LE 200-209 series caboose at College
A 200-209 series caboose rides the tail end of a Consolidation Coal
Company unit train that has just passed the P&LE’s College Pa. passenger
as it heads westbound to Gateway Yard near Youngstown, Ohio
Photo Credit: Robbie Beck photo |
P&LE #9090 engineer’s side view
Huge NU-1 class 0-8-8-0 switcher locomotive is parked on the ready line
July 1, 1948 at McKees Rocks, Pa. The slow-moving locomotive worked the
hump and scales that weighed coal trains from the Monongahela and
Youghiogheny Valley mines.
Photo Credit: Howard Davis photo |
P&LE #9090 fireman’s side view
Fireman’s side view of locomotive working the hump at McKees Rocks, Pa.
classification yard. This locomotive and sister unit #9091 worked McKees
Rocks and Newell classification yards, which processed and weighed large
volumes of heavy coal trains.
Photo Credit: John Couts photo |
P&LE #9091 builders photo - engineers side view)
Originally purchased in the hope of being utilized in moving heavy trains
on the P&LE’s Downer Branch, No. 9091 shown in this builder’s photo was
exclusively used in yard classification duties.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
PC&Y customer coal loading facility
Numerous strip mines flourished in Western Pennsylvania utilized dumping
platforms like this one found along the track of the Pittsburgh, Chartiers
& Youghiogheny Railway near Woodville, Pa.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
PC&Y steam train in action
Very rare photo of a steam train in action on the Pittsburgh, Chartiers &
Youghiogheny Railway. The railroad was a joint venture industrial
switching line owned equally by the Pennsylvania and P&LE Railroads’.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
P&LE Caboose No. 301
Caboose No. 301 was originally built for road service on the P&LE, later
being sold for such service to the Monongahela Railway. It was repurchased
by the P&LE in the 1960s for use in as a local service and transfer
caboose.
Photo Credit: Keith Krouse photo |
P&LE Caboose 501 Historical Record Card
The P&LE Historical Record Card for caboose No. 501 only contains
information from its 1950 construction date to 1981. The railroad did
little maintenance record keeping on these cards after it encountered
financial problems,
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
P&LE drawing for caboose series 500 to 509
Cabooses of the 500 - 509 series were constructed by the Pittsburgh & Lake
Erie Railroad Freight Car Shop located in McKees Rocks, Pa. In 1950, and
remained in service until the company ceased operations in 1992.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
