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Geneva Short's Collection
 
4/26/2024
 
 
 
 
 
Owner: Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
Model:EMD GP7Built As:PLE 5736 (GP7)
Serial Number:17982Order No:5253
Frame Number:5253-2Built:4/1953
Other locos with this serial:  OHCR 1501(GP7) YA 1501(GP7) PLE 1501(GP7)
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End of the Line
Title:  End of the Line
Description:  Just down the hill from Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, was the "College" station of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. The sole remaining P&LE passenger train, which ran until July 1985, started here every weekday morning for one trip to Pittsburgh and then came back in the evening. Not long after I made this picture, the train made its last run (you can see the discontinuance notice in the station window). June 1985 (date approx.) Unfortunately other signs of the P&LEs decline are in evidence: the hoppers on the left are in storage (note rust on the wheel tread); somebody told me that the railroad later sold a whole fleet of those hoppers to the Peoples Republic of China! Today you'd only find one track here (with concrete ties) operated by CSX.
Photo Date:  6/1/1984  Upload Date: 9/12/2011 12:28:13 AM
Location:  Beaver Falls, PA
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  PLE 1501(GP7)
Views:  814   Comments: 3
Not much longer...
Title:  Not much longer...
Description:  Just down the hill from Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, was the "College" station of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. The sole remaining P&LE passenger train, which ran until July 1985, started here every weekday morning for one trip to Pittsburgh and then came back in the evening. Not long after I made this picture, the train made its last run. Here the train is put away for the weekend, its tail end hiding under the bridge to Eastvale (date approx).
Photo Date:  6/1/1985  Upload Date: 9/12/2011 12:12:00 AM
Location:  Beaver Falls, PA
Author:  Geneva Short
Categories:  Scenic,Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  PLE 1501(GP7)
Views:  2425   Comments: 13


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