0018 Railroad Yard in Pitcairn - 1940s.
0048 Railroad Yard in Pitcairn - 1950s
0195 Pennylvania Railroad's Yard at Pitcairn. c. 1940.
0201 the PRR's Pitcairn Station. c. 1940.
0302 Pittsburgh Railways Trolley on Brinton Ave. (photo courtesy of the National Railway Historical Society.) c. 1940.
0311 Pitcairn School. c.1930.
0504 Pitcairn Borough. 2006
0505 Pitcairn street scene. Broadway Ave. 2006.
0544 Early Trolley along Broadway c. 1900.
0545 Pennsy RR Band concert at Pitcairn's ball field.
0572 Broadway in Pitcairn. 1920.
0618 Pitcairn funeral. 1919.
0619 Pitcairn funeral. 1919.
0702 PRR Yards in Pitcairn showing locomotive roundhouse and brick kilns in foreground. 1952.
0712 Pitcairn's Welcoming sign (2007).
0713 Pitcairn Banner (2007).
0715 Christmas in Pitcairn in 2007.
0735 The familiar red and buff Pittsburgh Rail ways Streetcar is shown here on the route from Pitcairn to Turtle Creek. (1961). This "PCC Car" was built by the St. Louis Car Company, and the type was in wide use in the area from the mid 1940s to the 1960s.
0736 Pittsburgh Railways Trolley in downtown Pitcairn. (1961).
0793 Pitcairn RR yard with Roundtable (Van Ormer brickyard in foreground) c. 1950.
0797 Drawing of Pitcairn - 1910.
0799 Pitcairn Yards - Intermodal Transfer - 1998.
0807 Railroad Caboose in Pitcairn.
0831 John McGinnis (1798-1847). In 1835 John McGinnis bought some 300 acres of land in the Turtle Creek Valley in what would later become Pitcairn. His family would become one of the most important pioneering families in the valley. In 1850 he sold a tract of land to the Pennsylvania Railroad beginning what would become a major railroad presence in the Borough of Pitcairn for over a hundred years.
0832 The McGinnis Homestead located at 318 Wall Avenue, was built by John C. McGinnis in 1899.
0833 Schiffler's Grocery Store at 534 Broadway in Pitcairn, in 1908.
0834 Third Street in Pitcairn, 1908.
0837 Pitcairn's Police in 1909-1910.
0838 Pitcairn's Police in 1944.
0839 Tilbrook Brothers General Store in Pitcairn, c. 1900.
0840 Toohill House in Pitcairn, built in 1810.
0841 Pitcairn's first Borough building, built in 1902.
0842 Pitcairn Post Office, c. 1940.
0843 Pearce's Furniture Store in Pitcairn, c. 1900.
0844 John C. Toohill in Pitcairn, c. 1920.
0845 Fire Wagon Pitcairn Hose Company No. I, 1906.
0846 Pitcairn Band, 1894.
0847 Pitcairn Band, 1900.
0848 Pitcairn's light Plant to generate electricity for the community.
0849 First High School class of Pitcairn Schools, 1898.
0850 F. X. Toohill, Jr., of Pitcairn.
0851 Pitcairn's Allegro Mandolin Sextet.
0853 David Glew (standing left) is seen with fellow postal workers at the Pitcairn Post Office in this 1969 photo.
0854 The George Matlick Brinton Homestead. Built in the 1830s, it later became a school in 1904.
0855 John Stewart III (1796-1865).
0856 Obelisk serving as grave marker for James B. "Big Jim" Linhart (1916-1899) in the Beulah Cemetery. The man was a well-known character in his time, whose tombstone was described in the words of an old history as: "the most pretentious in the otherwise prevailing simplicity of Beulah graveyard."
0859 Rebecca Barr Wilkinson (1815-1899).
0860 "Water battle" between two fire companies in Pitcairn.
0861 Dallas Foster "Dock" Salyard riding in an automobile past Salyard's Hardware on Broadway.
0862 Salyard's Plumbing and Heating on Broadway in the 1980s.
0863 Edgar McGinnis in 1926.
0864 Broadway in Pitcairn in the 1940s.
0868 Hoel's Jewelry Store on Broadway at Wall Avenue in Pitcairn. c. 1910.
0869 Airmail Envelope (c. 1930) depicting a unique mail transfer system for picking up mail by Pitcairn Post Office at Bohinski Field in Monroeville. The aerial pick-up system was devised by Dr. Lytle S. Adams of Irwin, Pa. Dr. Adams realized that the problem with airmail delivery to small towns like Irwin was the long delay occasioned by take-offs and landings. He invented a system like that used by trains that picked up mail on the run, wherein the mail bag suspended from two 40-foot poles so that a low-flying plane could snag the mail bag with a hanging hook. This system was so successful it was widely used in the tri-state area, and became a common practice at hundreds of small town airports.
