Look at the color of the smoke, cough cough! Hope that there wasn't any houses nearby. It does make a nice backscene for the tiny streetcar! Thanks for sharing John.
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Sure doesn't look very healthy but it is a cool shot.
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Ah, the good ol' days! It was conditions like this that brought the environmental issue to the boomer generation. Very colorful, nice compo and thanks for letting everyone see the difference that has been made.
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| Posted by bscinn on March 13, 2009 | |
Wonderful shot and RR depiction...and I'll be danged, but I'd wear a gas mask outside if that's what it took to bring back the robust manufacturing, and economic base we had at that time and shown in this shot.
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Fantastic photo, really great stuff. I remember that plant, and most of all what I remember about it is that there was a very strong sulfur smell in the air, i.e. it smelled like rotten eggs! Yep, those were indeed the good old days...
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Beautiful photo from 40 years ago...and a PCA vote!
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Amazing series of photos from the 'Burgh. I just wish that I was born earlier than 1960. My dad tells stories about Pittsburgh streetcars when he was younger
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| Posted by on February 24, 2014 | |
The venue is actually in North Braddock, Pa, along Braddock Avenue that had been the # 55 line outbound to East Pittsburgh. Once the 55 was converted to bus upon the opening of the Glenview Bridge, PAT extended the #65 Linocoln Place-Munhall line through Braddock and to the loop in the alleyway astride the Union Railroad elevated line in East Pittsburgh. My father worked the open hearth furnances belching smoke that day (my mother always said smoke from the mill meant food on the table). He would have been close to his retirement (1966) from the Edgar Thompson Works of U.S. Steel. Counting from the far end, the smokestacks were number one-through sixteen, each for one of the steel making furnances. My dad was the First Helper on his shift on the # 4 Furnace. The streetcar has just passed a barricaded road that ran under the railroad yard to Turtle Creek -- the stream, not the community. An automotive bridge used to cross the creek to the small community of Port Perry, which had been razed for expandion of the B & O rail yards parallel to the Monongahela River, just above the Number Four Dam (The one visible from Kennywood) by the time of this photo. I believe a pedestrian bridge was still in place at that date that my father would occasionally used to walk to and from work from our home on Milligan Avenue in Crestas Terrance (North Versailles). I was three months away from being drafted into the U.S. Army when this photo was snapped. After serving in Vietnam, I returned briefly to the area, but I've lived and worked as a radio and print journalist in Wisconsin since 1972.
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A splendid photo of ET and a streetcar.
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