In September, a post in the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Interest Group on Facebook featured a scan of a 1928 publication showing small photos of various P&LE stations, including one labeled “McKeesport”. It was hard to see any detail, but it certainly wasn’t the B&O station I was familiar with. That’s when it struck me: I had been so focused on B&O passenger trains serving the B&O station in McKeesport that I gave very little thought to the possibility of the P&LE having their own station in McKeesport. I just assumed the P&LE and B&O both used the B&O station I saw in so many photos. Considering the age of the photo, I wondered if the station was still in use in 1949. Google searches kept showing me the B&O station while trying to find a P&LE station.
Today, it occurred to me to search that Facebook group for the word McKeesport, which turned up a better photo of the P&LE station, from a postcard postmarked in 1910. Mixed among comments of people mis-identifying its location as that of the B&O station was one guy saying it was located …