Old train trip from Pittsburgh PA to Pitcairn (1904)
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- Опубликовано: 3 янв 2016
- Something fascinating about this old footage of a train journey from 1904, travelling from Pittsburgh, PA to the area of Stewart Township.
The film shows the view from an old steam locomotive train travelling through Braddock, North Braddock, East Pittsburgh, Turtle Creek and Pitcairn.
It passes the Westinghouse Electrical & Manufacturing Co, the Westinghouse Air Bake Company in Wilmerding and ends in Pitcairn.
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My grandfather, mother and 2 uncle's all worked at Westinghouse in E.Pittsburgh in the 20s 30s and 40s. I attended school at St.Aloysius in Wlmerding, and St.Colman in Turtle Creek. I remember WABCO was always busy. Those were the days!
My great grandfather worked for PPR in Pitcairn in 1900's -1920's as a fireman. This is what he saw.
Thank you for sharing
This is SO INCREDIBLY COOL!
Thanks for this one...spent 30+ years on PC, CR, and NS running thru this photo'd territory. Great to look back 70 years before I started.
That's me walking the tracks in Turtle Creek. Good times.
I loved seeing the trolley in the opening shots. If we had preserved the network of trolley lines, our energy and environmental situation would be a whole lot better!
I believe my grandmother used to work at the Westinghouse air brake.
The first :43 seconds should be at the end. Train is leaving eastern end of Pitcairn rail yard and switched to Turtle Creek Rail Way. Trolley is on Trafford viaduct and train is passing Westinghouse Foundry in Trafford.
utterly amazing. I was trying to remember where my Dad worked and when I thought Westinghouse air brake, it suddenly appeared in text on the screen.it didn't look like this when I lived there but it kinda FELT like this.
My Grandmother was only four years old that year.
Imagine how all these people would react if you could go back and describe the Pittsburgh of today, especially with none of the huge steel mills.
Those industries were booming
On the Pennsylvania Railroad and early on you can see a Pittsburg Street Ry car on the elevated line to Trafford
I could almost smell the coal dust and imagine the HARD LABOR workers had to endure back then.
A look back in time ,a true time capsule . No planes , cars ,trucks , grade crossings, roads only horse and buggy , maybe some type of pre Ford model horseless carage at the most . Within 10 years , first generation cars ,trucks ,roads , planes , phones , ect.
I love it!!!
Great quality filming on a moving train from so long ago. Wonder how this came to be saved ? Archives from Westinghouse company maybe ?
Yes, they were made by Westinghouse in 1904, They are in the Library of Congress archives. (lost of actual factory footage from Westinghouse Electric and Westinghouse Air Brake Companies!)
I can't imagine how modern at that time , compare to my country .. thanks for good vdo😊
the north braddock caption is actually east Pittsburgh. (technically north Versailles)
I think it's Port Perry (which technically be in North Versailles today) That would have been the first area after Braddock,but before East Pittsburgh in 1904. Since North Braddock borough extends in to Edgar Thompson Works, N.Braddock is a reasonable reckoning for the 21st Century veiwer though.
+James Slick Port Perry is the area where the URR and PRR cross the river. At 3:42 we are looking out the left side of an eastbound train. In the clip, the train just ducked under the URR, and immediately crossed Braddock ave. and Turtle Creek. The creek is the line between E Pgh and N Versailles. The present day tri-boro expressway would be directly above at this point. The train then begins passing a ramp progressing upward. This was Route 30 before the Westinghouse bridge was built. This ramp and abutment still exists today.
OK, Yeah, there's so many borough border lines in that general area (not to mention 110+ years of change.) it gets confusing. I lived in that part of the valley years ago. So cool to see these films, Be sure to look up the George Westinghouse documentary. (it's on RUclips.).
Should say east Pittsburgh
Very nice! I agree with others that you should include other cultures too. It would be very nice to see the changes!
On that note, I do love when you compare the old photos to the new ones. It looks very pristine.
Is that street car line still there as railroad tracks or has it been converted into the "Triboro Expressway"?
This is going back in memory 60 plus years, but the answer to your question is NO. The Tri-Boro paralleled the streetcar tracks about 1 to 1 1/2 blocks to the north through Wilmerding, Turtle Creek and E. Pgh. Beyond E. Pgh, Braddock Avenue and streetcars ran at 'creek' level where as the Tri-Boro was built at an elevated level. All of the original streetcar tracks have been paved over as far as I know. If there are ANY old streetcar tracks around, they would be on the Pitcairn to Trafford #62 line or the #87 Ardmore (Ardmore Blvd (aka US 30) - Wilkensburg/Forest Hills/East Pittsburgh) line where they had their own right-of-way.
There was a #55 streetcar that came out of Homestead, through Braddock on Braddock Ave and ran to Beech St & Linden Ave in East Pittsburgh. In East Pittsburgh you would take the #87 Ardmore streetcar (out of Wilkensburg via Linden Ave in E. Pgh), via Braddock Ave/Penn Ave in Turtle Creek, on east on Airbrake Ave to Wilmerding very close to the Wilmerding PRR station (after crossing the PRR tracks on a very old (in my youth) Maple Avenue bridge). There you took the #62 Trafford to get to Pitcairn.
Side note: As a kid, we used to catch the streetcar in T.C. and ride all day for a quarter, getting one transfer after another. We would go into Oakland (Forbes Field) for a ball game, or Kennywood to check out the girls, or Mckeesport, Homestead (radio station WEEP - the WEEP BEEP - Porky Chedwick) etc.
@@alh5238 There were still some visible trolley tracks near Mckeesport hospital up until about 5 years ago when they were finally paved over.
Do you know the Train and Company this footage is from?
The Pennsylvania railroad.