THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD’S GOLDEN TRIANGLE
By Ken Kobus and Jack Consoli

ERRATA

Compiled by Jack Consoli
Issue of 9-24-98

 Page 2, rear cover photo caption: "Shark" is model RF16 (PRR class BF16), date is after 1959, not c.1946.

 Page 12, top photo: L1s #1159 has a 90F75 tender.

 Page 15, center photo: CM Tower is at Milepost 347.8, not 348.

 Page 16, center photo: Caption should read: "K4s #2112 with a westbound local...".

 Page 27:  First paragraph: Should read: "...the narrow portion of Virginia... ...the narrow stretch of land it crossed in present-day West Virginia."

 Page 27, upper photo: Caption should read: "This is a view eastward..."

 Page 28, upper left photo: Caption should read: "To the west of "PH" Tower..."

 Page 28, center left photo: Caption should read: "...along with new "K" Tower..."

 Page 28, upper right photo:  Caption should read: "...Fourth Avenue station is on the left, and an elevated  gate tower is situated on the eastbound passenger platform..."
 
Page 28, lower right photo: Remove from caption: "The old watchbox (behind the signal) has been lowered to ground level."
 
 Page 29, upper right photo: The Aerotrain has completed its westbound run and is about to cross the Panhandle Bridge, probably to be turned at Monon, for the return trip east.

 Page 29, lower left photo: Caption should read: "The tracks at the lower level..."

 Page 31, bottom photo: The wrecker is #499415.

 Page 39, bottom photo: The Union Line boxcar #504594 is class X23.

 Page 40, upper left photo: Caption should read: "ALCo S3 (AS6) switching at Scully Yard..."

 Page 40, upper right photo: Caption should read: "...ALCo S3 (AS6) #8884 at Scully Yard."

 Page 41, upper right photo: The correct spelling is Canonsburg, Pa. station, not Cannonsburg.

 Page 41, bottom photo: Caption should read: "...1932. The PRR-owned narrow gauge Waynesburg & Washington Railroad..."

 Page 42, lower left photo: The correct spelling is Raccoon, Pa. station, not Racoon. 

Page 43, bottom center and bottom right photos: Captions are reversed: Laurel Hill Tower is the center photo, Burgetts Tower is on the right.
 
 Page 44, upper photo of Steubenville Station: Correct date is October 11, 1972;  September 11, 1962 is the correct date for the middle photo only. 
 
 Page 47, second paragraph, last sentence: Should read: "This was accomplished on March 10, 1858, and on  January 1st, 1859, continuous rail service from Philadelphia to Chicago was possible...".

 Page 48, bottom photo: The locomotive is E3a #2982.

 Page 50, bottom photo: The H.J. Heinz boxcar is lettered HPFL #3042.

 Page 51, center photo: The locomotive is 0-6-0 #7078, class B7b (converted from a class H3b 2-8-0).

 Page 56, top photo: Westbound freight is pulled by L1s #1684.

 Page 58, bottom photo: Caption should read: "...the way the locomotives are posed, the Penna. Co. class GG  wooden gondola #8799...".

 

 Page 59, Item 25 of the building key for the 1906 Allegheny Shops diagram should be listed as the Pennsylvania Avenue Milk Depot.

 Page 60, bottom photo: Caption should read: "...(#2 & #3 on the 1906 map; see p. 59)."

 Page 63, center photo: Caption should read: "The yard was used for locomotive storage."

 Page 66, center photo: Caption should read: "... Chestnut Street gate tower in 1907. The station was built in the neo-Tudor style in 1887..."

 Page 67, bottom photo: Caption should read: "...Ambridge was named for the American Bridge Co...."

 Page 70, top photo: Credit should be:  "Frank Vogan, Jr. photo ..."

 Page 71, top photo: The locomotives are: far left, an H6a; second from left, H6b #7753; fourth from left, saddle tank locomotive A2 "Excess Equipment" #192 (ex-7192, nee-PFWC 192); and at far right, H8a #7506. 

 Page 72, upper right photo: Caption should read: "In this westward view is the partially-completed...".

 Page 74, upper left photo: Caption should read: "...proper intervals, as is happening here."

 Page 76, upper right photo: Scale test weight cars are class Y4 #490386 and class YB #490396.

 Page 77, center photo: Caption should read: "...the Conway wreck train. Note that its wrecker is still..."

 Page 80, upper photo: Caption should read: "...a good view of both hump yards..."

 Page 85, upper right photo: #8951 is a Lima-Hamilton model T2500 (LS25M) transfer unit.

Page 87, center photo: May be of the Wellsville Shop Station, not the East Liverpool Station.

Page 87, lower left photo: Locomotive is I1sa #4394.

Page 87, lower right photo: Locomotives are #2024A and #9737A.

Page 88, lower right photo: Caption should read “….and the Mahoningtown Branch of the Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula (PY&A) Railway (operationally part of the Erie & Pittsburgh Branch).”

Page 89, bottom photo: Caption should read: “Mahoning Avenue crossing shanty on the Mahoningtown Branch of the PY&A, operationally part of the Erie & Pittsburgh Branch. The PY&A “Fairgrounds” yard is ahead and the track to the right is the New Castle Branch of the Western New York and Pennsylvania (WNY&P) Railway.

Track Chart insert:

1) The title was omitted.  The four sections were excerpted from the original entitled:

 Pennsylvania System, Fort Wayne Track Chart, Alignment and Profile, Pittsburgh to New Galilee, Ohio,  July 26, 1920.

2) Sections should be ordered (from east to west): Pittsburgh section, Haysville to Leetsdale section,
                                                   Ambridge to Freedom section and Rochester to Beaver Falls section.

3) The original chart erroneously labeled the town of West Economy as West Elizabeth, near Ambridge.


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