P.R.R. Diesel Switch Engine | Historic Pittsburgh

1949-09-23

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Title
P.R.R. Diesel Switch Engine
Creator
Newman-Schmidt Studios
Identifier
MSP285.B021.F21.I02
Source Identifier
MSP285.B021.F21.I02
Description
Caption on the back of the photograph reads, “Industry in Pittsburgh has cooperated wholeheartedly with the smoke control program. One of the main factors in reducing smoke and dirt has been the railroads’ $100 million dieselization program. Today there is not a single coal-burning shifting engine operating in the city limits. All switching operations have been dieselized.” In 1949 the City of Pittsburgh was joined by the Allegheny County Board of County Commissioners to fight for smoke control and to adopt a County Smoke Control Ordinance. Following this, no yard or switching locomotive could make more than one minute of dense smoke in any 15 minute period of operation, and no road locomotive could make more than 2 minutes of smoke. The locomotives pictured in the photograph represent some of the newer, less-polluting diesel engines, which began to replace steam locomotives around this time.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Pennsylvania Railroad.Diesel Switching Engines.
Smoke prevention--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Locomotives--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Source
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
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