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Tuesday – photo by Mitch Waxman A humble narrator was out for an early walk, on a particular section of Pittsburgh’s Great Allegheny Passage trail, found in the Homestead and Munhall areas. After marching to the Whitaker Flyover bridge, which spans a grouping of rail tracks parallel to the trail, I was rewarded with a less than sudden appearance of a Norfolk Southern train set. ‘Less than…

Monday – photo by Mitch Waxman It was a warm summer morning which greeted a humble narrator, one recent day, and it saw me revisiting a now familiar section of Pittsburgh’s Great Allegheny Passage Trail. The turnaround point this morning’s efforts would be the Whitaker Flyover rail bridge, a location which has often proved fruitful in terms of there being abundances of locomotive traffic…

Monday – photo by Mitch Waxman One was out and about quite early, recently. My uncharacteristic scuttling in the morning was in response to the ferocious nature of recent afternoon heat which the Pittsburgh metro has been experiencing. The car was ensconced at the parking lot of the Homestead Pump House, which allows one egress to the Great Allegheny Passage trail. My time was limited, but…

Wednesday – photo by Mitch Waxman Last week, I showed you what the historic Homestead Pump House site on the Monongahela River looked like when bathed in thick fog. Lament was offered regarding the lack of a freight train transiting over the Pinkerton’s Landing or “Pemickey” Rail Bridge. The Homestead Pump House is one of the trail heads for The Great Allegheny Passage or “GAP” rail to trail…

Police Issue Warrant For Suspect in Thanksgiving Night Munhall shooting

Police in Allegheny County are looking for a person who they think shot and injured a man late last night. County 911 was called for a shooting in the 20 block of Scotia Way. Inside, paramedics found a 33-year-old man who had been shot in the chest. He went to the hospital in a bad way. Police arrested a man who illegally entered a house and shot someone. The person was visiting the person who…