 Pittsburgh,
McKeesport & Youghiogheny Railroad stock certificate
The Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny Railroad was operated as the
eastern end of the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad. The PMcK&Y was 50%
owned by the P&LE and the New York Central owned Michigan Central Railroad
and leased its tracks, locomotives and rolling stock to the P&LE.
Photo Credit:: Jack Polaritz Collection |
PMcK&Y RR H-9-C class locomotive No. 9592
Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny Railroad H-9-C class Mikado is
pictured at the P&LE’s shops in McKees Rocks. This picture was taken when
it was equipped with a strange looking home-built 15,000 gallon tender in
March, 1923. More information about this and other Little Giant H class
locomotives may be found in Kahndog Publication book entitled
P&LE’s MIKADOS.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
Coal trains at Youngstown
This scene at P&LE’s Gateway Yards complex located near Youngstown,
Ohio shows their switcher locomotives in the process of transferring cars
of coal between trains destined for delivery to ships at Ashtabula harbor.
Photo Credit: Robbie Beck photo |
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P&LE International caboose at Monaca, Pa.
A westbound P&LE train heads through Monaca as it approaches the
railroad’s Ohio River bridge with an International-built caboose on the
rear. The unit is still wearing its Penn Central-era green paint scheme,
worn by many cabooses until of the demise of the P&LE in 1992.
Photo Credit: Keith Klouse photo |
B&O/P&LE West Pittsburgh interconnection
A Chessie System train swings downgrade towards P&LE main line at
Control Point 43 on the Little Giant with a train destined to ride their
tracks all of the way to McKeesport, Pa. before going back onto its own
Company’s tracks again.
Photo Credit: Robbie beck photo |
 P&LE
2055 at Youngstown
One of P&LE’s original GP-38-2’s No. 2055 heads a train through
Youngstown on the Youngstown - Ashtabula run, after the railroad had
finally reached the Lake Erie in its name.
Photo Credit: Bill Nixon Collection |
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PAT Train
A Port Authority of Allegheny County train owed by the agency, but
operated over the tracks of the P&LE and CSX with CSX crews, heads back to
Pittsburgh from the McKeesport terminus of its commuter run.
Photo Credit: Robbie Beck Collection
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 PC&Y
locomotive scrapping
August 22, 1924 view showing Hausman & Wimmer Company’s salvage yard on
property leased to the Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway for
cutting-up locomotives and other large scrap.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
P&LE 4 wheel caboose No. 98 - side view
Small, all-wood, 4-wheel cabooses known as “bobbers” were the principle
cabin cars on the P&LE from the inception of the line until the early
1920s. Originally the cars were alpha-coded for identification purposes,
that system was changed to an all-number coding early in the Twentieth
Century.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
New York Central EMD F and Baldwin Shark diesels
A number of New York Central’s Baldwin “Shark” units such as the No.
3890 pictured here ay Bellefountain, Ohio wound up their service life
operating on P&LE affiliated line, the Monongahela Railway. Information
about these units, and other Monongahela Railway steam and diesel power,
will be found in Kahndog’s upcoming publication
LOCOMOTIVES OF THE MONONGAHELA RAILWAY.
Photo Credit: Sy Herring photo |
last example of P&LE RR’s Woodlawn Station
Colorized post card view of P&LE’s Aliquippa, Pa. Passenger station
facility, originally constructed as Woodlawn. The small structure to the
right side of the station building is a newspaper stand that served
commuters for a number of years. More information on this and other P&LE
station facilities located in the Ohio and Beaver River Valleys’ will be
found in Kahndog’s upcoming book ENGINE FOR CHANGE.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
 P&LE
4 wheel caboose No. 98
End view of Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad “Bobber” caboose No. 98
photographed in the railroad’s McKees Rocks, Pa. Yard facilities.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection |
