Those Crazy Railroad Tracks are amazing where all they lead to on Neville Island one even goes thru a warehouse to get to another .

 Neville Island just a few miles down from Pittsburgh on the Ohio river is Heavily industrialized on top half of island which means it also has an abundance of railroad spurs go all over the island to what was once many steel and other manufacturing plants .

The little railroad Formally known as Pittsburgh Chartiers and Youghiogheny Railroad which then became Sort lived Pittsburgh Industrial Railroad  and is now known as Pittsburgh & Ohio Central Railroad operates with 3 different engines and has trackage rights to Washington Pa.  

However with all the weaving and bopping it has to do to get tank ,flat and gondola cars delivered to various company's who have taken over the old Mill sites  one in particular is a little more tricky.

What was once the sprawling site of PDM Pittsburgh Demoine Steel the railroad has to actually  pass thru one building to get to another on Grand Ave  which are owned by different company's 

 

It goes thru the building owned by SMB Mechanical Contracting to make a delivery to Trinity Metals 

at end of day after train is done working SMB rolls down the doors till another work day .

Its a rather unusual  arrangement but it works. 

Its a shame all the tracks no longer used and the 10,000 jobs the island has lost but lots of small company's have popped up in there place.

big paranormal event this weekend

 

Those Strange Electrical Meters and disconnect Switches which seem to be in the middle of no where ? Is it a Secret Government Bunker ?

 As you ride thru The Allegheny National Forrest in McKean and Warren County's of Pa. on US 219 or US 6  or Pa 66 you will ride for miles and  not see another living  sole and nothing but thick forests and  woods . But then occasionally you might see an Electrical Meter Setup like in the image below along side the road .

But what is it doing out in the middle of no where and what could it be serving ?

A secret hidden Underground  Government Bunker ? Well that's what conspiracy Buffs will tell you . They claim the government has all kind of secret stuff going on deep in the National Forrest which if this is the case I don't think they would have a power line  and meter you could follow to it.

But what it could be serving is an Oil Well Pump Motor further back in the woods you do not see.or water treatment site or booster pump  etc. with water being provided by a natural spring

It could be serving a Cabin or Home you do not see sitting back one of those dirt back roads .

It could even be serving a Coal Mine or Quarry . again sitting back in woods and you do not see it from the woods especially when all the leaves are on trees. 

 Another good possibility is the meter is serving a Cellular or 2 Way Radio  Tower  or AM /FM transmission site.

When you go back those dirt roads on the many back roads in Pa.  with permission like I do  You quickly realize  there is really nothing to it and power is being provided to one of the items I listed above .

But power to a secret hidden bunker I doubt it if such a structure was there in the woods it would be self provider of energy like with solar and wind  and be very carefully hidden so you don't know its there. 

I had one guy show me pictures one tie of what he claimed was a secret hidden FEMA cam with Gas chambers . One look and it was clearly a Natural gas compression facility . but to the untrained individual yea it could look that way. He felt pretty silly after showing me the pictures.

So now you know.

 

 

New Evets coming up

 

It has been 30 Years since the Disastrous Flight 427 incident in Beaver County Pa . Yet one rumor about how it happened will not go away why?

 It has been 30 years since the fatal flight of US Air 427 Crashed into a field in Beaver County Pa near Alliquippa .on September 8 1994  I mean no disrespect to those who lost family but there has been a persistent rumor needs to be confirmed or ruled completely false

 

https://www.wpxi.com/news/local/2-first-responders-reflect-flight-427-crash-beaver-county-30-years-later/YUOHZUOJORBQNLRTP4WMUHHFKE/

 

I remember it well I was in class at CCAC South getting my life back on track after getting permanently crippled Leg  in a construction accident  when I got word  over my pager and left and meet up  with my Allegheny Valley React  Communications Team  ready to head out when we where cancelled  at last minute .

All of a sudden they wanted no volunteers and even Volunteer Fire Fighters  first to respond where asked to leave once county ,state and federal agency's showed up.

But why they claimed volunteer would be more likely to sue for mental anguish and other issues VS. Government employees who could not 

All the answers total  complete bull shit. 

Civilians have been used at other crash sites . Of course this just helped fuel speculation  which is more than warranted when it looked into.. Sounds just like  Keckburg remove the civilians and bring in the military

I have even done Alarm and electrical in homes  close to where crash happened and those home owners say something wrong going on with official ruling . 

Over those 30 years I have run into many former US Air  employees and mechanics etc. and everyone i have talked to say they disagree with FAA ruling it was a tail rudder issue .

Many insist it was an explosive  went off caused Rutter issue and  this  explosion was deliberate  because there was an extremely important federal witness being transported to Pittsburgh for a Grand Jury hearing with very damaging information on Political figures.

Now it seems inconceivable they would kill a whole plane of passengers and make it look like  an accident  thee witness could be taken out many different ways  . Yet why would all these Airline  employees insist otherwise?

 Yes from all I can find there was a witness on the flight  who was killed

Part of this whole conspiracy is that  the Late Mike Boguslovski a Consumer Reporter for WPXI TV 

was fired  for looking into the rumors .

.Plus .Given all the conspiracy and not getting the truth from our government about everything from JFK assassination to 911   it is understandable how this rumor still persists .

 I was doing work for Pittsburgh Custom Darkroom on Pittsburgh's North side  who processed many of the crash scene photos  for coroners office and they where simply horrifying and daily they sent employees home sick who processed the black and white photos many I saw when there was a problem with the processor.  Yes many County employees who worked that crash scene I know  where never  right in the head afterward  and it lead to the downfall of the illegally and improperly  formed  Delta Team  and some of its leaders .

Yes there is plenty of grief to go all around  this incident which many will not accept and this is why this rumor and conspiracy still exists .

Upcoming Fall Paranormal Shows

 

Yes Pittsburgh at one time had Two Red Light Districts

 

 Hard to believe but in the 1980s Pittsburgh had 2 Red Light Districts one in Pittsburgh's North Side on Federal Street which had the Mini Ritz Adult Theater and infamous  Garden Theater  and the several block long one in Downtown on Liberty ave Liberty ave was full of Adult Theaters , Massage Parlors and Adult Book stores  and ruled by one of the most colorful characters  of the time   Dante Tex Gill who was a women who dressed as a man and had a wife. 

 

https://www.them.us/story/the-true-story-of-dante-tex-gill

 

 

 

https://www.wesa.fm/arts-sports-culture/2018-04-26/people-were-afraid-to-come-downtown-when-pittsburgh-had-a-red-light-district

 

 

Unfortunately all this vice lead to a War between  Dante her boss George Lee  and the  Pittsburgh Mob and resulted in a bombing with killed one masseuse.

 I had a customer on liberty ave Ace Amusement owned by the colorful Character Larry Hirsch and one night  while working fixing his alarm we had to evacuate when they found a bomb in  the mens room in the Liberty Adult Art Cinema next door. The stupid ass bouncer . Brought the bomb in a cigarette pack out on to street before calling police. as we evacuated it was sitting on side walk and had a red blinking light. .

 

Ace  Amusement was to the right 

 

After the war ended Tex Gill went to jail  for tax evasion Mr Lee was Killed  and the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust started buying up renovating and tearing down these seedy establishments .

The only remnants left today are the old Edison Hotel now known as a Blush Exotic gentleman's club and the adult book store at Smithfield street .

But what an exciting and interesting period it was.

There was almost a 2nd Boston Tea Party in Leetsdale Pa in the 1980s. when some one opened a British Tea Shop?

 As you ride down Pa 65 South  thru Leetsdale you pass some industrial building and then come to an intersection with an old railroad building which has been many things over the years including a dry cleaners. The railroad crossing has been long closed but this is how you got back to the industrial park at one time .

It sits empty at the moment but in early 80s  Cathy Windsor  turned the building into a British Tea Room and restaurant what a neat ideal for tea lovers and history buffs . Unfortunately as part of the decor she put a large British flag on a flag pole out front and that's what doomed her project from the start  and saw it closed in less than 6 months.

Town citizens ignorance  where outraged she put up such a large British flag on American soil and threatened to burn the place to the ground and not patronize it, 

Actually it was a very nice place for those of us who love tea and town-folks where acting very ignorantly to the Decor there was no slighting on the USA ever in the owners mind. 

There is a very similar place up on Pa 19 in Wexford minus the big flag and everyone thinks its great to be able to enjoy British Delicacies 

The Forgotten Oakford Park Tragedy which killed 21 people in Jeanette Pa on July 5 1903

 Imagine its 1903 and  you are sauntering in your Sunday Best clothing enjoying a local Trolley Amusement Park  in Jeanette unaware the park will see a very dark and terrifying tragedy about to happen to them

.

When a sudden unexpected cloud burst would overflow and break the dam of Lake Placid which is one of the attractions of the park 

https://www.thirdstopontheright.com/oakford-park/

the park manager seeing water starting to rise in the park and flowing over the dam tried to get people to go to higher ground but it was too late for over 20 of them being swept away.

  The park was destroyed but was quickly rebuilt in 1904 and lasted well into the 40s 

and the swimming pool till the 80s. '

Today a gas station sits where Trolley Entrance was and an old garage across the street was the one time trolley shed. 

and the park just a memory .