Before and After: West Penn Rwys & LVT in the Orange Car Years 1917-1952

04/20/2026

Lehigh Valley transit coming down 1333 Main St., Hellertown PA early 1950’s. Mom‘s diner is the only building that is not there today in this picture.

04/16/2026

Pittsburgh Street later PA 51 heading north from Oliver/Uniontown around 1950. The streetcar line on the right is on its way to Phillips Bitner Vance Mills and Juniata Coke ovens.. This became the northbound lanes of Route 51 after 1951. This spot is hard to line up today.

03/28/2026

Central Ave., Moxham Johnstown 1959, one year before streetcar stopped running there and recently. A lot of the businesses along the stretch are no longer there.

03/27/2026

The photos of this trestle in Herminie surfaced a coule of years ago. Too difficult to get down there to see if concrete abutments survived.

03/25/2026

Although the West Penn railways street car destination sign said it went to Dawson, it actually did not. It stopped just to the right of this bridge at Dickerson run and then made it its way back through Vanderbilt and back to Leisenring.  There were no street car tracks ever placed on the bridge to get to Dawson. Everything you see in this picture (except the house on hill) is gone today. This was the Dickerson run rail yard and round house area. If you look carefully on the left you can see the stairs people took exiting the street car to cross the bridge into Dawson...

03/17/2026

Hamilton Street at 7th Allentown PA 1953 and recently.

03/13/2026

It’s cool when a trolley station is saved as that rarely happens. The Perkasie PA historical Society saved the Lehigh Valley transit station where the liberty Bell line ran until 1951.

03/07/2026

... yellow cars ran in Pittsburgh as well ( but how do we REALLY know without color photos ? ) but does anyone know when they sunk the exposed tracks into the bricks / blocks ?

... at the corner of Baum Boulevard and Liberty Avenue looking east toward the Methodist Church around 1920... Interesting that the tracks of the Pittsburgh Railways Company streetcars were not sunken into the Belgian block yet...
.. Anyone know the history of that ?

photos courtesy of Pitt Digital Library and Google...