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Satellite, today it is brownland)
Janic Fenk
shared a post by Jim Donehoo. Unfortunately, the Sep 2020 version of Facebook won't let me access a link to Jim's post. Jim posted three images with the comment:
I found this 1946 picture years ago online of a double roundhouse in McKees Rocks. Turns out it was Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Youghiogheny Railways, which was jointly owned by the Pennsylvania RR and Pittsburgh and Lake Erie RR. Also turned out that it was printed flipped around. Attempting to find it on a 1923 map led me to that discovery. Suddenly, all the streets and features lined up! Both roundhouses were gone by the 50's but the turntable and tracks on the one closest to the river show them into the 60's. I'm guessing there must be some sort of toxic waste still there since that section is undeveloped. Aldi's is in the lower left hand corner of the current pic for reference.
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Tim Starr posted
It is the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie main back shop site at McKees Rocks, outside Pittsburgh. It was a rather small railroad that made a lot of money shipping coal. |
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| 1948 Pittsburgh West Quadrangle @ 1:24,000 |
Dave Kuntz
posted five photos with the comment: "McKees Rocks, PA, once had 2 full roundhouses. Today the site has been drastically downsized and is occupied by a shortline, the Pittsburgh & Ohio Central Railroad. I've done my best to line up a set of old photos; all traces of the turntables are now brownfield land but the connector track through the woods is still mostly there and highly overgrown."
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Skipper L Swartout posted
PL&E 2-8-4 #9401 at McKees Rocks, PA 7/5/1948 the shops in the Background.
John Katz: These 7 Berkshires were the last steam locomotives built by ALCO. The tenders were built by Lima and displayed Lima builders plates. |
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David Mathew posted
P&LE Shops McKee's Rocks, Pennsylvania, USA June 14, 1985 |
A couple of the backshops are still standing.
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Tim Starr posted
Close-up view of one of the standard forges in the McKees Rocks blacksmith shop. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie RR. |
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