B&O No. 5660 4-8-2 locomotive
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad 4-8-2 Mountain locomotive No. 5660 seen here at
New Castle could be found on P&LE’s tracks between there and McKeesport,
Pa. It was often used on express-type service on trains that it pulled on
track age rights over the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie.
Photo Credit: Mike Petterson photo
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P&LE A-2A locomotive No. 9402
One of a class of seven Berkshires built for the P&LE by Alco in 1948, the
No.9402 is at the McKees Rocks, Pa. Locomotive service area still wearing
its white side-wall paint on its drivers from its company builders
photograph. For more information on these locomotives see Kahndog
Publication’s book, P&LE’s BERKSHIRES.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection
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Detroit Edison train at College, Pa.
An empty eastbound Detroit Edison train on its way back to the Monongahela
Railway at Brownsville, Pa. for loading passes a westbound P&LE freight
train at College, Pa. More information about the Detroit Edison trains on
the Monongahela can be found in THE MONONGAHELA
RAILWAY, ITS HISTORY AND OPERATIONS available through Kahndog
Publications.
Photo Credit: Joe Jack photo
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Detroit Edison train at Glassport, Pa.
Electro-Motive diesel power leads a loaded Detroit Edison unit train
heading westbound on P&LE’s Monongahela Division at Glassport, Pa. in
route to the company’s Monroe, MI power plant.
Photo Credit: Joe Jack photo
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locomotive tender for P&LE 9404
The tenders for P&LE’s last new steam locomotives, which were built in
1948 by the American Locomotive Company, saw their tenders having to be
produced at the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio. For more information
on these locomotives see Kahndog Publication’s book,
P&LE’s BERKSHIRES.
Photo Credit: Allen County Museum
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P&LE track gang
This picture was taken in the days before mechanization took over from
track gangs on the P&LE. Fifteen men are seen in this picture of a crew
repairing tracks after a locomotive derailment at College, Pa., and it’s
more like there were even more that didn’t get into the picture.
Photo Credit: O. C. Hage photo
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P&LE ore train at State Line, Pa.
An eastbound ore train in route to the Wheeling Pittsburgh Corporation’s
steel mill at Monessen, Pa. is captured as it passes State Line, Pa.
behind a pair of P&LE’s original GP-38-2’s.
Photo Credit: Keith Klouse photo
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PC&Y constructing bridge over Munson Ave
The year is 1911 and the Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway is
elevating its line in the “Bottoms” section of McKees Rocks, Pa., which
includes a bridge over Munson Avenue.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection
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PC&Y Construction raising railroad yard
Fall of 1911 saw the PC&Y raising its McKees Rocks, Pa. Railroad yard to
allow a lessened grade in approaching their Bridge No. 1 over the P&LE’s
railroad shops and yards.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection
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PC&Y colored labor bunk house
A 1923 view of a bunk house for colored laborers working on construction
projects on the Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railway.
Photo Credit: Jack Polaritz Collection
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New York Central Niagara locomotive # 6008
While the P&LE/NYC joint service passenger trains operated over the Little
Giant behind Hudsons and Mohawks, the Central’s mighty Niagara’s were not
operated on the Pittsburgh trains.
Photo Credit: Sy Herring photo
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