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Back to HQ
Friday
ā photo by Mitch Waxman
After a long walk down a steep hill and a thousand feet of steps, my dogs were barking. Thereby, I was quite pleased when a T light rail train set arrived to ferry me back to HQ, some five miles distant.
This option is pretty much going to not exist for the entire summer, which sucks, but the transit agency people are going to be reconditioning the concrete andā¦
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A heck of a hill
Thursday
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After having descended along the German Square stairs as described in prior posts, a humble narrator found himself in Pittsburghās South Side Flats neighborhood. This āzoneā is pretty urban in character, and āold timeyā in terms of its building stock. Iām of the belief that thereās a āhistoric districtā rule which applies to certain sections of the Flats, but asā¦
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Up, down, and around
Wednesday
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Yupā¦ thatās the shot I was hoping for after walking down a thousand feet of steps. Norfolk Southern #1024. Itās an EMD SD70ACe model locomotive if that means anything to you. What warmed the cockles of my heart, however, was what it was hauling. Check it out. I recognize those containers, and so will longtime readers of this publication. You really never canā¦
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Slopes to flats
Tuesday
ā photo by Mitch Waxman
As mentioned yesterday, a humble narrator was recently observed walking down a set of municipal steps here in Pittsburgh which are called ā apparently ā āGerman Square.ā
I found a shot of them from 1933, on display at historicpittsburgh.org. Zillow indicates that this area is a named neighborhood which goes by German Square, and that several quite lovely homesā¦
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Twelve hundred steps program
Monday
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Famously, the City of Pittsburgh offers hundreds of flights of municipal steps for the usage of the citizenry, which aid pedestrians in navigating the challenging terrain of the place. Recent endeavor saw a humble narrator hire a taxi in order to get to the top of one of the more extreme examples of this sort of infrastructure (not the ones pictured above) andā¦
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Wassup in Sewickley
Friday
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Sewickley is a Borough in Pennsylvaniaās Allegheny County, found about 12 miles northwest of Pittsburgh proper, and is home to about 4,000 people. Itās quite a lovely and seemingly well-off suburb, I would mention.
Thereās a park and a boat launch along the Ohio River, the access road of which is pictured above as it tunnels under the Norfolk Southern tracksā¦
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On the hunt
Thursday
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After visiting Emsworth Locks and Dam along the Ohio River, located just outside Pittsburgh, one noticed a plastic box labeled with ātake oneā that contained xerox flyers proclaiming this spot as being āBuzzieās Corner.ā
I havenāt been able to find out too much about this cognomen, but apparently this was, and is, a popular railfanning location. Thereās aā¦
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Emsworth Lock and Dam
Wednesday
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As part of a humble narratorās continuing exploration of the Pittsburgh metro area, an afternoon in late March found me standing at the fence lines of an United States Army Corps of Engineers installation called the Emsworth Locks and Dam, on the Ohio River. As it turned out, I missed a dramatic set of events here which would occur in early April when anā¦
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Second Interruptus
Tuesday
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Happily, I can report that the bug which has been afflicting me has fallen, and destroyed by my mighty immune system, as buoyed up by dozens of hours of sleep. Felt like hell for about 24 hours there, this was a āwild eyes looking back at you from the bathroom mirror at 4 in the morningā kind of thing. Nothing survives within me for long. My gaze causesā¦
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Interruptus
Monday
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A humble narrator is feeling a bit off today, under the weather, all that sort of stuff. Thereby a single image greets you, but hopefully regular programming will resume shortly when the physical plant returns to a predictable homeostasis.
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Burnt ends
Friday
ā photo by Mitch Waxman
A few odds and ends shots from a visit to the Millvale River Walk space on the Allegheny River, just east of āPittsburgh proper,ā greet you today. As described, this was a scouting scuttle, wherein I was checking the place out and seeing if there were any interesting compositions to be exploited during intervals when the weather was a bit more photogenic.
I wasā¦
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Millvale, too
Thursday
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As described yesterday, before a humble narrator found himself getting lost in anecdotes about those bizarre behaviors which the humans display as theyāre operating vehicles, a visit was paid to the Millvale Riverfront Park trail, along the Allegheny River. I had a pretty basic camera kit with me, and my goal (beyond getting some exercise) for the day involvedā¦
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Millvale scuttle
Wednesday
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One piloted the Mobile Oppression Platform over to the community of Millvale recently, to check out a āriver walkā trail that Iāve had pegged on my Google maps inventory for a while now. This spot is on the north coast of the Allegheny River and just east of Pittsburgh proper. Active rail moves through here, and thereās also plenty of ruined rail infrastructureā¦
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Goldurnit
Tuesday
ā photo by Mitch Waxman
Sighā¦ soā¦ the local transit outfit, which operates the T Light Rail here in Pittsburgh, is called āPittsburgh Regional Transit,ā or simply āPRT.ā Compared to the monstrous political patronage outfit and financial black hole back in NYC which calls itself the MTA ā PRT is comparatively a small family sized business that runs buses, inclines, and a truly tiny lightā¦
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A Schenley Scuttle
Monday
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After entering Schenley Park via a southern entrance (as described last week), your humble narrator walked along the Junction Hollow Trail. Paved with asphalt, this is a pretty easy walk through a series of sports fields and open meadows of grass. On either side of the urban corridor it moves through, here in Pittsburgh, steep hillsides sprinkled with urbanizedā¦
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Scuttling Hollow
Friday
ā photo by Mitch Waxman
While walking through a Pittsburgh neighborhood called āThe Run,ā one of the first things I noticed and pointed the camera at was the Swinburne Bridge. Itās a 1915 steel girder affair, which carries Frazier Avenue over the ravine which the Run community is embedded into. Clicking that link above will bring you to a page at historicbridges.org, which will tell youā¦
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Run, rabbit, run
Thursday
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Recent endeavor found your humble narrator driving over to a section of Pittsburgh called āThe Runā which adjoins Schenley Park. I wasnāt visiting or exploring the community, rather passing through and I was following a trail map which led through the park.
At the nearby end of the Eliza Furnace Trail is found a parking lot, where the Mobile Oppression Platformā¦
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