Butler Train Station ~

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Under the Wayne Street Bridge. 

It was a busy place.

Lyndora Bridge ~

On the way to Pittsburgh.

Pullman Standard ~

When production was great.

Photo: Cappy Pucket

Station under the Viaduct ~

Our busy train station.

Thanks: Ryan Macefe

Train under the Viaduct ~

We heard the whistle blowing . . .

Thanks: Pat Gallagher

Atlas Hotel ~

Was close to the railroad station.

Thanks: Dave Craig

Armco Workhorse ~

Colonel Ike Scanlon ~

Photo and Question
Thanks: Bill May

Greetings Charles:
I wonder if you could place the attached picture of Colonel Ike Scanlon (real name was Michael Scanlon) on your blog. He was a train announcer for the B & O Railroad, but most people would remember him as selling newspapers at the corner of Main and Jefferson by the Hot Dog Shop. He left Butler in 1936 to move with his wife to Baldwin, Kansas. He was quite the well-known celebrity in Butler and even had his own orchestra "The Star Orchestra". He ran the miniature railroad at Alameda Park and was the first to sell souvenirs at the amusement park.
-- Bill May

Product ot Pullman Standard ~

A Pullman Standard railcar that has returned home to become a historical marker. It sits in front of the new transit authority bus station in the center of the Pullman business park. It was built at the Pullman Standard's Butler Plant in June 1974 (plant closed in 1982 and was demolished in 2005) and is a covered hopper car that carried grain. It was donated by GATX, transported back from Canada, restored in New Castle and sent back to Butler in Feb 2011. A more fitting memorial that just a plaque to the old plant and its workers.

                                             Photo and text: Robert Osborn

Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing ~

We sent railroad cars out across the nation.

Train Station ~ Under the Viaduct

This used to be a very busy place.

Thanks: Barbara Bloom

Seen on a Boxcar ~