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Nostalgia History gt; History of P LE passenger service - Trainorders. com 1) The P LE commuter train during its final days in July 1985 This is the morning train arriving into Pittsburgh 2) The P LE's Pittsburgh station in 1978 Although the Grand Concourse seafood restaurant moved into this building by this date, the commuter train continued to use the station and P LE's headquarters were located here
Nostalgia History gt; P LE Gateway Yard - Trainorders. com Gateway Yard was a busy place into the late 1970's, until the collapse of the steel industry around Pittsburgh and Youngstown devastated P LE's main source of business P LE survived until 1993, mostly on coal traffic from the Monongahela Railway, in which P LE had a 1 3 ownership interest P LE was absorbed into the CSX system in 1993
The last W LE Kodachrome - Trainorders. com W LE 2662 is always an interesting engine to see, adding an odd variety of color to Wheeling Lake Erie's trains, sometimes with blue ex-EMDX engines, or grey ex-KCS and recently bought Union Pacific engines from LTEX in grey paint as well 2662 would often be with W LE 2679 which was in the same paint job, but since 2679 was rebuilt and
B LE Saxonburg, PA and US Steel Sintering Plant - Trainorders. com A B LE crew is using three SD9's to assemble a train of sinter for North Bessemer The yard is full of empty B LE hoppers waiting for sinter loads Also visible in the yard is a string of covered hoppers that would have delivered loads of limestone and dolomite The B LE main tracks are in the foreground, paralleled by a long siding
Rolling good through the neighborhood (W LE) - Trainorders. com Hot on the heels of the NKP 765 deadhead move was this Carrollton (Ohio) empty stone train, shown passing through the backyards (and front yards) of Navarre, Ohio on 05-05 Wheeling and Lake Erie #302 with it's Rio Grande nose lettering made for a nice leader Roger Durfee Cuyaho
Nostalgia History gt; W LE West End Branch - Trainorders. com The W LE had leased a few Wisconsin Central SD45's in the early days and we see WC #1724 headed down the branch and crossing Steuben Street in Pittsburgh's West End neighborhood 2 While waiting for the W LE to come up the interchange track, a P LE local speeds by on the main, There are three separate railroad in this view - the W LE, P LE and