P&LE GP38-2 sits at a locomotive facility in Youngstown, Ohio. The P&LE served the steel industry between Pittsburgh, PA and Youngstown, OH. The closing of steel mills led to the end of the P&LE i... (more)

P&LE, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie U28B 2812, leads a northbound loaded coal train on the Monongahela Rwy at mp8 Clarksville, Pennsylvania. April 23, 1986. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

P&LE, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie GP38 2030 leads a northbound coal train off the MGA, and onto the P&LE at Brownsville, Pennsylvania. October 11, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, P&LE U28B 2819 -MP15DC 1593 -U28B 2818, northbound coal on the Monongahela Railway at Brownsville, Pennsylvania. March 27, 1986. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo If you look c... (more)

P&LE, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie GP38 2053-MP15DC 1579-U28B 2804, with a northbound on the P&LE Mon-line at Monessen, Pennsylvania. May 2, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

P&LE, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie GP38's 2032-2034-U28B 2819, is just out of Newell, PA, and about to cross the Monongahela River to head south on the MGA, at Brownsville, Pennsylvania. April 23, 19... (more)

P&LE, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie GP38-2 2052 leads a southbound down the P&LE Mon Line at, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania. April 30, 1985. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Pittsburgh and Lake Erie, P&LE GP38 2037-2033-2059 leading a northbound coal train on the Monongahela Railway at, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. March 14, 1987. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Labor Day weekend and the yard is chock full of motive power and totally empty of human beings. We were like kids in a candy store. This unit seemed rather out of place but I'm not really famili... (more)

Four P&LE GE U25Bs are seen on the EJ&E Porter Line in 1980.

Despite having tried to railfan the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie main once, this U28B quartet lead overhead is the only Pittsburgh & Lake Erie train I ever saw in my lifetime and it was on the Norfolk &... (more)

Bow Coal trains frequently had power on both eds of the train. Here is the rear end of a northbound train passes through La... (more)

Bound for the power plant in Bow, New Hampshire, Pittsburgh & Lake Erie power leads a coal train north on the Delaware & Hudson at Lanesboro, Pennsylvania. This was the last train that I photograp... (more)

Empty hoppers from the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie move south on the Monongahela Railway at Pine Bank, Pennsylvania. After being filled with West Virginia coal, they will return to home territory.

Bow Coal at Jeff Junction - 2

The Bow Coal train has pulled past the operator’s shanty at Jefferson Juncti... (more)