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Erie-Lackawanna Railway
This series explores 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.
There's a walking path that passes within ten feet of these
railway cars. There's nothing aesthetically pleasing about either
one of these graffiti-covered cars when viewed from a distance. Once
I got up close, however, and crawled underneath and inside of the
passenger car, my perspective changed. I became fascinated with the details.
--Allen C. Benson, 2006

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