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A Work Train Removing Tracks along William Penn Highway

ca. 1930-1950

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A Work Train Removing Tracks along William Penn Highway
  • Title
  • A Work Train Removing Tracks along William Penn Highway
  • Date
  • ca. 1930-1950
  • Identifier
  • 20110202-hpicmonroeville-0101
  • Source Identifier
  • 303
  • Description
  • Local work trains were a common sight in Patton Township in the 19th century, laying, maintaining, and removing track. Here a train work crew is removing tracks from along the William Penn Highway near Trestle Road – so named after the railroad bridge that once spanned the gully
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Railroad tracks--Pennsylvania--Monroeville--Maintenance and repair.
    Locomotives--Pennsylvania--Monroeville.
    Monroeville (Pa.)--History.
  • Source
  • hpicmonroeville
  • Contributor
  • Monroeville Historical Society
  • Collection
  • Monroeville Historical Society Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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