P&WV Era Photos
This page will include images from the P&WV, The Nickel Plate Road, The Western Maryland Railway and our short line connectors The Donora Southern, The Monessen Southwestern Railway, Montour Railroad and Union RR

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Some rare shots of the bridge and deck M of W cars. These were used for a short time and were replaced by modern M of W trucks in the late 1950's.


P&WVWoodCabDrawing.jpg (3,414kb) P&WV engine #920 on this assinged work train. Cab 820 brings up the rear on a hot June day. June, 1952 (227kb) This photo is a rare shot of P&WV bridge and deck M of W rolling stock. The train consisted of a composite gondola in oxide red, storeage boxcar (Ex W&LE) which was light grey with black lettering and 3 former New Haven wooden cabs, light grey in color dedicated to M of W. A twelve man crew worked 8 months of the year painting and cleaning the bridges and decks. (105kb) Also included was the P&WV WX8. This was the tender for P&WV switcher #20. The Ex New Haven cabs had been converted to storage for paint and thinner and crew bunk cars. Shot taken at Oak MP 50 storage track. Aug, 1953 (106kb)