Erie-Lackawanna Railway

This series presents detailed views of two abandoned railway cars parked near Station Square under the Panhandle Bridge (Monongahela River Bridge), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of the cars is an Erie-Lackawanna electric passenger car and the other (see photo below) is a Bottle Type hot metal car built by MH Treadwell Company of Easton, Pennsylvania.

I saw nothing aesthetically pleasing about either one of these graffiti-covered cars when I first saw them from a nearby walking path. After a closer look inside the passenger car, my perspective changed. You can see some of the structural details presented here. 

--Allen C. Benson, 2006

Hot metal car. 2005, pinhole image. Pittsburgh, PA.
 
 

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