WNYP/NS/Pennsy 1930 Bridge over Allegheny River in Oil City, PA

(Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Bridge & Tunnels; HAER; Satellite)

WNYP = Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad (leased from Norfolk Southern)

This bridge carried Pennsy's mainline between Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Most of that line has been abandoned, but one of the original two tracks that were on this bridge is still used by the WNYP.

Photo from HAER PA,61-OICI,2--2 from pa1273

July 1971. AERIAL RECONNAISSANCE II, ERIE RAILWAY SURVEY. - Pennsylvania Railroad, Allegheny River Bridge, River Street vicinity, Oil City, Venango County, PA

[It is Pennsy's roundhouse. Erie was on the other side of the river. My understanding of the comments on the following posting is that the modern building on this side of the old building was part of the shops building. The modern part was retained and repurposed as the Oil City Warehouse Mall.] 

Carl Venzke posted
Pennsylvania Railroad, Allegheny River Bridge, River Street vicinity, Oil City, Venango County, PA - photo by Jack Boucher c 1968
Rob Nichols Overheads show single tracked now with the line heading to the upper left now abandoned.
Rick Fleischer Just out of the picture, to the left, was the Pennsylvania Railroad's roundhouse at Oil City, Pa.

Joe Dunlap commented on Carl's posting
Still there.
[The satellite caught the river at a higher water level.]

George Ford Jr commented on Carl's posting

Francis Otterbein shared
Kim Hughes From what I've read Pittsburgh has the most bridges and Pennsylvania's right up there as a state. Beautiful picture thank you.
[Comments indicate that there used to be a double crossover when both tracks were intact. Someone wants to know how to model guard rails in a turnout on a bridge.]
Matt Marshall This side of oil city was the PRR, the Erie came up the other side of the river.
Thomas Jameson Hard fitting a railroad in those river valleys!

Dennis DeBruler commented on Francis' share
One advantage of roundhouses is that they leave a very distinctive land scar. Since railroads a reluctant to clean up their polluted ground, you can still see where many of the roundhouses stood.   https://www.google.com/.../@41.4233535,-79.../data=!3m1!1e3
Matt Marshall The warehouse mall in the pic was part of the shops.

Chris Spear commented on Francis' share with a photo from RRPictureArchives of a steam engine coming off the bridge.

Share:

Read More

CN/EJ&E's Kirk Yard, Bill Molony's Photos

Bill Molony is the curator of the photo collection of the Blackhawk Railway Historical Society. The regular Kirk Yard notes where already getting big, so I have decided to create a new set of notes for Bill's photos. I include the "posted" link only on the first photo because that gets you in the middle of the photos he posted in the Friends of the EJ&E RR Facebook group.

Some of the photos include a tall, red structure. I have asked what it was, but I have not got an answer. But you can use it to spatially correlate some of the photos. A blue diesel fuel tank can also be used to correlate some other photos.

Bill Molony posted
Elgin, Joliet & Eastern EMD SW1001 #445 was built in July of 1971.
Dennis DeBruler Given the power lines in the background, is this roundhouse in Kirk Yard?
Bob Tarlini Considering the number of powered overhead doors, I would say yes Gary. Also the 444 and 445 were the first switchers to go with the all green paint.
Joseph Tuch Santucci The 445 had a fax machine in the cab. The yardmaster could fax switching instructions and work orders to the engine. Although the several times I worked the Tin Mill job we never received any faxes.

Bill Molony

Bill Molony

Bill Molony

Bill Molony

Bill Molony

Bill Molony

Bill Molony
Christopher Gobert How stable would that load have been?Al HuberAl and 33 others joined Friends of The EJ&E RR within the last two weeks. Give them a warm welcome into your community! Spur track on the humpRichard Staciwa Jr. It's still the same except for the signal bungalow!Skip Burch That's a diagonal gondola. These were used in the Plate Mill, and they didn't require a form 1000, which required the conductor to stop and watch the load between designated bridges due to close clearances, and certain adjacent tracks had to be clear. 

Bill Molony

Bill Molony
Steven Suhs Coils out of the tin mill going over the hump at Kirk yard.

Bill Molony

Bill Molony

Bill Molony

Bill Molony posted
Dennis DeBruler What was (is?) the tall red structure on the right side?

Bill Molony

Bill Molony

Bill Molony

Bill Molony
Ron Harris That is a jet engine snow blower. The J got them in the winter of '78-'79, when we had over 100 inches accumulated snow.
Al Wszolek Ron Harris is correcft. But if they did not stay over the switch till it was dry the melted snow sometimes would turn to solid ice. Bring on the chippers.

Share:

Read More