It became the Pittsburgh and Western Railroad that same year, and in 1880 it was extended north to Wurtemberg (near Ellwood City) and southwest from Etna to Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh). Concurrently in 1883, to get the P&LE ready for the expected new business due to the South Penn linkage, the McKees Rocks shops were built. The P&LE then extended up the Monongahela River to Brownsville, Pennsylvania in 1901. ft.), Western Pennsylvania Railroad / Minute Books, 1860-1903. The South Pennsylvania Railroad was planned to connect to the PM&Y. Guide to the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad - Historic Pittsburgh The B&LE main line divides around Greenville, between a waypoint north of the village of Osgood called 'KO' and another waypoint near the village of Kremis that used the telegraph call name 'KY', for the "Osgood-Kremis" cut-off ("K-O") that joined the original "Old Line" there. Although the B&LE acquired some early diesel-electric switching locomotives painted black with yellow trim, in 1950 the company adopted a locomotive color scheme of bright orange and black which is still in use. It was never used by The B&O's route through Pittsburgh had excessive grades and curves. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Histories of Various Companies, ca 1934-1965. (.15 cu. (2.25 cu. and Pittsburgh line. (.3 cu. The Y&P was formed to construct the P&LE's Youngstown extension. By The two span bridge also has a smaller Pratt through truss span as well. The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad logo. Ohio to Lorain, Ohio, 91 miles and a branch to Cleveland of 29 miles. In the last years of the P&LE, CSX used the line more than P&LE leading to the merger. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Agreement Book, 1853-1894. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE) Steam Locomotive Repair Shop Washington, Pittsburgh, Pa. Names Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant Detroit Publishing Co., publisher Created / Published c[between 1900 and 1910] . ft.), PRR / VP of Purchase / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. The LE&P was chartered April 30, 1903 to build a railroad from Youngstown, ft.), PRR / VP Central Region / Blueprint Track Chart of Branch Lines, 1938. (Howard Fogg, artist for the painting, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons). (.16 cu. ft.), VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of W.H. The rarest road-switchers EMD ever cataloged was the RS1325 of 1960. (59 cu. ft.), PRR / VP Eastern Region / Letter Books, 1924-1926. (.1 cu. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Yards, 0.3 miles north of the intersection of Locust St. and Linden Ave., McKees Rocks Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE) Steam Locomotive Repair Shop (HABS/Traub) SEE METADATA 1980, Golden West Books. On July 6, 1877, McCreery resigned and Bennett was elected to president with Jacob Henrici becoming a director. (1 cu. Except for a very brief period when the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie was first chartered it had never been independently operated. [5] Two steam locomotives from the B&LE have been preserved, which are 2-10-4 No. (.2 cu. Its first locomotive was built in 1867. (.2 cu. ft.), State Realty Company / Minute Book, 1907-1909. While the records are primarily legal documents rather than maps, information provided includes the effective date, purpose, names of interacting parties, terms, financial arrangements, and description of principle right or property conveyed. (.0 cu. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Indexes to Minutes, 1870-1954. (.1 cu. As a subsidiary of CN, BLE has been largely unchanged (though repainting of BLE locomotives into CN paint with "BLE" sub-lettering began in April 2015[2]) and still does business as BLE. (5 cu. The western yard limit was the end of track for the P&LE. The P&LE followed the left downstream bank of the Monongahela River past the terminal to the Golden Triangle, where that waterway meets the Allegheny River and becomes the Ohio River. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Wire and Pipe Crossing Agreements, 1925-1957. ft.), PRR / President / Presidential Correspondence of Samuel Rea, 1913-1925. ft.), PRR / VP of Altoona Works / Record of Operating Expenses of the Juniata Shop, 1914-1918. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Pennsylvania Railroad and Long Island RR Directors' Inspection Trip Book, 1947. (11 cu. The B&LE formerly interchanged at Osgood, Pennsylvania with the New York Central System, later Penn Central Railroad and then Conrail, until the latter abandoned the line in 1988. Fogg made a series of paintings of scenes on the P&LE. In 1881, the P&LE became linked with the notorious South Pennsylvania Railroad (South Penn). For track maps of the Erie and D, L & W lines, see Track Maps of the Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, circa 1917-1976, Series {#300m164}. Interestingly, this line would be one of the only corridors built by the Monongahela as most of its system was a result of mergers or buyouts of small railroads. (25 cu. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / General Correspondence Files and Coal Mine Reports, 1930-1938. ", According to the book, "New York Central," Railroad by Brian Solomon and Mike Schafer; "the railroad had such a large concentration of heavy shippers that it earned $100,000 a mile or more for many consecutive quarterspaying a 12% dividend.". The B&LE operated a line from Queen Junction (near Butler, Pennsylvania) to Brady's Bend, Pennsylvania. A former New York Central subsidiary, by 1979 it had struck out on its own but was caught as the . (.1 cu. The railroad linked the "steel centers" of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Youngstown, Ohio by 1879. ft.), Susquehanna Coal Company / Leases, 1883-1939. The P&LE was known as the "Little Giant" since the tonnage that it moved was out of proportion to its route mileage. The "Interchange" yard was made up of six tracks, four were for interchange to and from the B&O Railroad and two of which were for general use. On the westernmost end of the McKees Rocks yard, the P&LE interchanged with the PC&Y. Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works, formed in Pittsburgh in 1865 by Andrew Carnegie, built most of the P&LE's (Pittsburgh & Lake Erie) early locomotives, and continued to supply from its Pittsburgh Works the bulk of P&LE's steam power after merging with American Locomotive Company in 1901. The lists were constructed by doing word searches of the narrative series descriptions for the designated words: maps, tracks and real estate. ft.), Erie Railroad / Miscellaneous Land Records, [ca. The LS&MS was a very large Midwestern system of the latter 19th century. It did not reach Lake Erie (at Ashtabula, Ohio) until the formation of Conrail in 1976. Much of its tonnage was thanks to its strategic location within the country's bustling steel-production belt. In 1988 the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad became part of Transtar, Inc., a privately held transportation holding company with principal operations in railroad freight transportation, dock operations, Great Lakes shipping, and inland river barging that were formerly subsidiaries of USX, the holding company that owns U.S. Steel. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Abstract and Opinion of the Acts of the Legislature and Casesin reference to the Title of the North Branch Division of the Penna. ft.), Lehigh Valley Railroad / Property Schedules, (BV 634, 635 and 636), 1936-1941. Canal, 1901. (.1 cu. The line location was changed to connect Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad - A Genesee & Wyoming Company Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad (BPRR) bprr Home Transloading Industrial Development Railcar Storage Tariffs Fuel Surcharge Real Estate Total Miles (Owned or leased as of 12/2019): 728 (New York - 101, Pennsylvania - 627) Interchanges (.25 cu. Henrici was the key due to his Harmony Society ties which was a communal religious group founded in 1805. (29 cu. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Notes for Centennial History of PRR Company, ca 1946-1949. Site of Methodist church that caught fire due to sparks of passing trains. The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad was a relatively small system. of Purchases / General Correspondence and Confidential Files of C.D. ft.), PRR / VP of Eastern Region / Locality Files, 1918-1936. A popular pastime for many is studying and/or exploring abandoned rights-of-way. of Law / Miscellaneous Interstate Commerce Commission Case Files, 1927-1935. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Ledgers, 1903-1925. In addition, some trackage was in place in the Lorain Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad - Alchetron When Conrail was formed, the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad again became an independent company because P&LE was owed $15.2 million by Penn Central, and operated as such until its merger into CSX Transportation (CSX). The owners still owned the property, but the railroad was allowed to conduct agreed-upon activities on the swath in question. (.15 cu. The charter was issued May 18, 1875, and the . [Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad] station and Mt. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Minute Book of the Road Committee, Finance Comm. Great Allegheny Passage Conservancy Author's work. (.5 cu. ft.), Mifflin and Centre County Railroad / Monthly Construction Accounts, 1862-1869. While it operated around one tenth of one percent of the nation's railroad miles, it hauled around one percent of its tonnage. In 1976, the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad regained its independence, although at a time with the regions industrial might was fading and the coal mines near Connellsville were long tapped. This train, and all others, died in January of 1957 when the U.S. mail contracts were cancelled. Later in 1915 it reached Fairmont, West Virginia. are Interested, 1962. [1] This was largely because the P&LE served the steel mills of the greater Pittsburgh area, which consumed and shipped vast amounts of materials. In some cases (yards, stations, repair facilities, etc.) ft.), PRR / Secretary / Information Books, ca 1926-1954. (1 cu. The P&LE was . ft.), Erie Railroad / Tax Registers, 1891-1915. The Monongahela Railway then was extended south to Martin, Pennsylvania reaching the Kondike Coke fields. Company headquarters were located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The roof of the freight house is to the right of the terminal train shed. (92 cu. The series listed below contain scattered information and/or maps of PRR and Penn Central real estate holdings in Manuscript Group 286. At the end of 1970 P&LE operated 211 miles (340 km) of road on 784 miles (1,262 km) of track, not including PC&Y and Y&S; in 1970 it reported 1419 million ton-miles of revenue freight, down from 2437 million in 1944. ft.), Philadelphia and Erie Railroad / Record of Track Material Loaned for Construction of Lumber Branches, 1895-1906. In 1998 a gentleman by the name ofAndre Kristopans put together a web page highlighting virtually every unit out-shopped by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division. After 2 years the starting group was not very successful at raising the required funds and in 1877 many of the directors were succeeded by a new group of Pittsburgh businessmen. ft.), PRR / VP of Law / Riot Docket and Ejectment Suits, 1877-1895. Because the B&LE's primary traffic is iron ore, it adopted rust-colored hoppers so the ore wouldn't produce noticeable stains on its cars. Painting by Howard Fogg,January 1956. Most of the online customers had long been gone, with only the main line still intact. The line sat out of service until 2000, when it was abandoned. Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, Pittsburgh And Lake Erie Railroad, Chartiers And Youghiogheny Railway Pittsburgh, and Lu Donnelly, Traub, Nicholas, photographer. In the upper photo, the terminal sits along the Monongahela river. Under Newell, Reed and Colonel Schoonmaker; the P&LE would become the "Little Giant". Bessemer and Lake Erie's locomotives, especially the SD40T-3 "Tunnel Motors," have been scattered across the CN system in the mid-late 2000s with the majority leaving the B&LE Property in March 2015. (.1 cu. There was also a small roundhouse on the property, plus the College Hill Station. It utilized former NYC, streamlined day coaches. 2017. With a large system taking notice and strong monetary support wide-scale construction of the P&LE commenced in 1878. ft.), Manor Real Estate and Trust Company / Minute Books, 1870-1954. (.05 cu. The Pittsburgh, McKeesport & Youghiogheny Railroad also followed the Monongahela River to Brownsville, Pennsylvania. It was an instant hit in 1952, selling thousands. (.25 cu. The development of by-products distillation processing of coke had moved to the Pittsburgh area. The Erie Railroad ( reporting mark ERIE) was a railroad that operated in the northeastern United States, originally connecting New York City more specifically Jersey City, New Jersey, where Erie's Pavonia Terminal, long demolished, used to stand with Lake Erie, at Dunkirk, New York. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad - American-Rails.com Pittsburgh (West End). (1.5 cu. (.4 cu. Engineering Drawings, [ca.1886-1940 (bulk: 1915-1930)]{#311m.284} will be of interest. ft.), Coxe Brothers and Company, Inc. / Appendix to Estimates of Coal on Properties Owned or Controlled, 1925. It did not reach Lake Erie (at Ashtabula, Ohio) until the formation of Conrail in 1976. service As a subsidiary of CN, the B&LE has been largely unchanged (though repainting of B&LE locomotives into CN paint with "BLE" sub-lettering began in April 2015[2]). B&LE Tunnel Motor 905, B&LE SD38AC 868, and B&LE SD38 862 (painted in the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railroad scheme) are kept on the line for use on locals, and rare appearances on the ore trains. the succession of recorded deeds). can be found in the French Creek Metropark (Lorain County). ft.), Downingtown and Lancaster Railroad / Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. acquired and grading begun. To handle all of these heavy products the P&LE operated a small fleet of Berkshires (2-8-4), Mikados (2-8-2), and Consolidations (2-8-0). There was originally one tunnel on the B&LE mainline at Culmerville, but it was dug out or "daylighted" in 1922, converting it to an open cut through a hill. Fortunately for the railroad it was an immediate success and money was soon available for improvements. 643 and 2-8-0 No. Alas, in 2013 the site closed. ft.), PRR / Secretary / One Hundredth Anniversary Historical Files, ca 1876-1946. Homestead, PA 15120 A clearing house for P&LE info & photos from around the net. (.02 cu. Some of the lines and branches covered in the series'twenty-four boxes include: For maps of the routes and land holdings of the Lehigh and New England Railroad, the series The eventual closure of the steel mills led to the end of the P&LE as an independent line in 1992. The final track laying between Pittsburgh and Youngstown was on January 27, 1879. ft.), PRR / President / Subject Index to Presidential Corr. trackage ft.), PRR / Secretary / Board Files: Green Sheet Leases, 1926-1957. Five Pittsburgh & Lake Erie GP38s lead westbound freight LT29 across the diamond at Blasdell, New York on August 20, 1988 as a Buffalo Southern freight waits in the distance. P. & L.E. Ry. [Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad] station and Mt (.1 cu. (297 cu. P&LE 1885, with additions. (.5 cu. The P&LE was known as the "Little Giant" since the tonnage that it moved was out of proportion to its route mileage. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Minute Books of the Road Committee, 1847-1948. As the litigation continued the Consolidation Rail Corporation launched on April 1, 1976; a government-sponsored railroad which acquired the bankrupt assets of Penn Central and several other Northeastern carriers. (1.25 cu. The P&LE's passenger terminal in Pittsburgh was on the south bank of the Monongahela River, at the foot of the Smithfield Street Bridge. ft.), Katharine Water Company / Minute Book, 1904-1925. On May 11, 1870 McCreery and ten other people filed Articles of Association with the Pennsylvania Secretary of State. ft.), PRR / Secretary / Corporate Histories Prepared in Accord. ft.), West Lane Garage Company / Minute Book, 1934-1943. (3 cu. The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad was formed in 1875 to transport coal, coke, iron ore, limestone, and steel among the regions industrial centers. The images also document many non-railroad activities and scenes in urban and rural areas of Western Pennsylvania's . The railroad's mainline runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio, to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania -- a distance of 139 miles. Erie Railroad - Wikipedia ft.), Wilcox Railroad Annual Reports to the Auditor General of Pennsylvania, 1895-1896. Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Ohio River Bridge (4041'34.52"N, - 8017'27.33"W) The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P&LE), also known as the "Little Giant," was incorporated on May 11, 1875. At the end of 1970 P&LE operated 211 miles (340km) of road on 784 miles (1,262km) of track, not including PC&Y and Y&S; in 1970 it reported 1419 million ton-miles of revenue freight, down from 2437 million in 1944. Company headquarters were located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. P. & L.E. It was at this time that Andrew Carnegie, Pittsburgh's celebrity steel tycoon, became involved by providing financial backing. Please note: There also exists an unprocessed series of PRR/Penn Central maps entitled: Architectural Drawings and Maps, ca 1818-1970 (1883-1965). All written content, photos, and videos copyright American-Rails.com (unless otherwise noted). ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Printed Abstracts of Title, 1869, 1875. In addition, we now hold a physical volume entitled Real Estate Atlas of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad, Butler Division, [ca. The New York Central took an interest in the road early on, and by 1879 had a 15 percent interest. The Baltimore & Ohio RR obtained trackage rights in 1934 on the P&LE, and Chicago-New York trains such as the Capitol Limited (Chicago-Washington), Columbian (Chicago-Washington) and Ambassador (Detroit-Baltimore) operated over the P & LE between New Castle Junction and McKeesport. His hope was to develop a successful local operation, which would offset the monopolistic nature and discriminatory rates imposed by the PRR. The iron ore that originates on these lines is transloaded to ships at Two Harbors, Minnesota; then sent by ship to Conneaut, Ohio, where it is again transloaded to B&LE trains. Cassatt and James McCrea, ca 1899-1913. The railroad's main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio, to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a distance of 139 miles (224km). Significance: The bridge is significant for its relatively long and heavy cantilever truss, planned shortly before the Quebec cantilever bridge collapse of 1907. During the midst of this growth an NYC&HR subsidiary eyed the property to gain entry into Pittsburgh, then the sole domain of rival Pennsylvania Railroad. (MP 13/MP 13a/MP13c), 1896-1920. It did not reach Lake Erie (at Ashtabula, Ohio) until the formation of Conrail in 1976. In 1993 the company was purchased by CSX. It is difficult to truly articulate just how much material can be found at this website. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Studies, 1950-1970. (.1 cu. Carnegie Steel had an exclusive 99-year lease to the PS&LE. ft.), PRR / VP of Special Services / Merger Testimony and Exhibits, 1962-1967. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Bridge (Big Run Branch Railroad For more and perhaps more easily obtainable maps and aerial photographs, you may also want to consult the following sources: Tracings and blueprints for buildings, bridges, and track routes of the Land and Tax Department for the Wyoming, Jersey City and Buffalo Divisions of the Lehigh Valley Railroad are included in Series {#274m.568}, Track and Structures Drawings, 1870-1976. Latest by 1968, only the section between College Hill, Beaver Falls, Aliquippa and P&LE's Pittsburgh Terminal was served by one single roundtrip commuter train per day. This series primarily represents agreements that the PRR entered into with individuals, companies, and local governments. (.11 cu. These two Geeps remained on the railroad's roster as long as it operated commuter trains as they were equipped with steam generators. ft.), Bedford and Hollidaysburg Railroad / Minute Book, 1902-1911. The GP18 was a first-generation road-switcher model which followed the GP7 and GP9. The railroad's main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio, to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a distance of 139 miles (224 km). For land and trackage owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the State Archives holds a series of 49 microfilm rolls, filmed in 1976 by the Penn Central, entitled: Real Estate Maps and Atlases (#RRV 1101 through 1148) {#286m.423} . and Mill Creek valleys. ft.). Many were pulled up in the 1970's and 1980's although others were removed long before that. (.01 cu. Its promoters envisioned the road as a coal hauler, serving a mine owned by the Mercer Mining & Manufacturing Company based near Pardoe, Pennsylvania (north of Pittsburgh) and connecting with the nearby Atlantic & Great Western (a later Erie Railroad predecessor). Henrici would also become a director in 1877. The original line ran between Youngstown, Ohio (at Haselton) and 24th Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania near the Jones and Laughlin Iron Works, opened in 1879. ft.), Berkshire Land Company / Cash Book, 1945-1953. Monaca-Beaver Railroad Bridge (Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Bridge It directly served the Pittsburgh region with lines extending as far as Connellsville to the southeast and Youngstown, Ohio to the northwest. The line connected Pittsburgh in the east with Youngstown, Ohio in the Haselton neighborhood in the west and Connellsville, Pennsylvania to the east. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Letter Press Books of George W.I. (.1 cu. Bridge abutments and remains of the roadbed The Cleveland Short Line to which it connects In addition, coal arrived from nearby mines in central Pennsylvania as well as theMonongahela Railway from the south. (.5 cu. In 1964, it ran one round-trip between Youngstown and Pittsburgh as well as one additional southbound and two additional northbound trains on the section between Beaver Falls and Pittsburgh. railroad archivist. 1, 1910. Some of the lines and branches covered in the series' twenty-four boxes include: . It was eventually purchased by CSX, with some assets being absorbed, the commuter route terminated in 1985, and tracks from McKeesport to Connellsville abandoned in 1993 to make way for the Great Allegheny Passage. (.1 cu. (.4 cu. Another series relating to PRR real estate holdings, rights of way and agreements is the Valuable Papers File, [ca. Records vary as to scope and nature, including pipe and wire, trackage and crossing rights, real estate, physical facilities, financial obligations, operations with affiliated companies, governmental authorizations, purchases, and so forth. ft.), PRR / VP of Real Estate / Annual Reports and Data, 1920-1933. This would lead to William Henry Vanderbilt to control of the P&LE as a link in the South Penn and the building of the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad. The LE&P was opened for service THE PITTSBURGH AND LAKE ERIE RAILROAD COMPANY. (2 cu. The series is currently being processed, and an item-level Excel spreadsheet detailing drawings that have been catalogued thus far is available in the Archives search room, and can be obtained as an email attachment from the These trains stopped at the Terminal located in Pittsburgh's South Side. For a few years the state of Pennsylvania provided subsidies to continue the run but, due to little support, the train was finally canceled altogether on July 12, 1985. {#31.18}, MG-416 Aero Service Corporation Photographs, MG-425 Ebasco Environmental Company Aerial Photographs, Baldwin Locomotive Works, Other Record Holders, PHMC Collections Management Policy Standards, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Access Policy, Erie Railroad and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, Bangor & Portland Division, including Martins Creek Branch, Limestone Spur, Wind Gap Branch, Atlantic BranchandBangor Branch, Valuation orders and related records, 1914-1934.
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