There were 3 steam locos associated with Station Square, the former P&LE Pittsburgh passenger station.

To the west of the building sat a Porter 0-4-0T/T that allegedly came from one of the Pgh. area steel mills. When the property was sold in the 1990s, that loco went to the estate of former B&LE president Fred Okie in Sewickley, PA. along with the ex-PMcK&Y/P&OV single truck caboose.

To the east of the station, in the area of the PRR Panhandle Bridge and the highway Liberty Bridge were stored ex-Mesta Machine Co. Porter 0-6-0F's 6 and 7. Those were scrapped in place in the late 1990s or early 2000's.

B&LE 643 was displayed briefly at what was then the P&LE station while in transit from Greenville, PA to the Union RR shops at Monroeville. SFAIK it did not return to Station Square afterward.

I want to say thanks to the lastish poster in the 643 thread, it shows theres a future for the engine and possibilities, we've talked it to death but we hope we've shed light.

awaiting more direct news from more official sources, so I bid adieu about it.

I'm not sure what I saw, but it wasn't the 0-6-0's. (The first steam locos I saw in actual revenue service.)

It was a lot larger than those. Then again, the shot is from a distance, and I could be mistaken about it being a steam loco at all. Maybe it was something else. I seem to recall it was tarped, but it's been years since I saw the tape.

Also stored in the vicinity of the two Porter 0-6-0Fs was a hot metal ("torpedo") car from one of the local steel mills. From a distance its rounded contour could be mistaken for the boiler of a steam loco. It was quite large. I don't think it survived the purge of rail equipment at Station Square after Forest City took over the facility c.1994.

The hot metal car is still there as of earlier this summer, having survived a fire that burned up a couple wooden trolley bodies stored right next to it. It's got roller bearings, too, if anyone's interested... but on heavy-duty archbar trucks.

No, that wasn't it either as I was familiar with that car.

I'm guessing this will be an unsolved mystery. I don't know where the videotape is, and even if I could find it, I no longer own an VCR...