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1916 valuation map by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Pittsburgh, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad Company was founded in 1897 by Andrew Carnegie to haul iron ore and other products from the port at Conneaut, Ohio, on the Great Lakes to Carnegie Steel Company plants in Pittsburgh and the surrounding region.
The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Bridge is a truss bridge that carries the Canadian National Railway's Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad division across the Allegheny River between the Pittsburgh suburbs of Plum and Harmar Township, Pennsylvania. In 1897, a single-track trestle and viaduct was built on this site; in 1918, the original piers were ...
The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad (P≤ reporting mark PLE), also known as the "Little Giant", was formed on May 11, 1875. Company headquarters were located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania . The line connected Pittsburgh in the east with Youngstown, Ohio , in the Haselton neighborhood in the west and Connellsville , Pennsylvania, to the east.
The Bessemer and Lake Erie subleases the portion of this railroad extending from East Pittsburgh to North Bessemer, Pa., to the Union Railroad Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.). The Bessemer and Lake Erie uses under trackage rights 21.14 miles of the road of other carriers, and permits other carriers to use 33.82 miles of its road under similar rights.
Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad No. 643 is the sole survivor of the class H-1 2-10-4 "Texas type" steam locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1944 for the Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, primarily used for hauling heavy mainline freight trains in Pennsylvania and Ohio, until retirement in 1952.
Pittsburgh, Shenango and Lake Erie Railroad: B&LE: 1888 1897 Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad: Pittsburgh Southern Railroad: B&O: 1878 1879 Pittsburgh Southern Railway: Pittsburgh Southern Railway: B&O: 1879 1884 Baltimore and Ohio Short Line Railroad: Pittsburgh and State Line Railroad: B&O: 1885 1887 Buffalo, Rochester and ...
Pittsburgh, Akron and Western Railroad: Pittsburg, Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad: B&LE: 1897 1949 Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad: Pittsburgh and Chicago Railroad: ACY: 1882 1887 Cleveland and Western Railroad: Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: PRR: 1917 1956 Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad
This is a map of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad drawn on the New York Central system as of 1918, with trackage rights in purple. The two disconnected pieces in West Virginia are not an error; they are remaining portions of the Little Kanawha Syndicate properties that were partially controlled by the P&LE.