Archive for April 2nd, 2024
Peripheral scuttling
Tuesday
– photo by Mitch Waxman
The walking route which occupied this particular Tuesday afternoon has become kind of familiar to me, and it’s a path which mirrors the Monongahela River’s southern shoreline. One was scuttling along the elevated P.J. McArdle roadway. The roadway has a nice pedestrian and bike lane which is separated from vehicle traffic by a line of concrete ‘Jersey barriers.’
The roadway structure juts out from a slope and is supported by a cantilever, which sticks out from the steep side of Pittsburgh’s Mount Washington. Above me, and to the right in the POV above, I’m told that the neighborhood is called the ‘South Side Slopes,’ and down below and to the left in the shot above – it’s the ‘South Side Flats.’
This is a great Pittsburgh walk, as it’s all downhill, but you get to walk on a comfortable and graded angle. I’ve also walked up this path, and that’s a real and sweaty workout as it’s a steady ‘push’ against the elevation.
I was walking downhill, as I’m lazy – just ask anyone.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
Railroad tracks are set into a berm on the landform’s base, which is one of the lines which carry the Norfolk Southern RR outfit’s rolling stock through the city. Traffic along these tracks is pretty frequent, but it’s become one of my missions to find unoccluded points of view on the line – which is somewhat easier said than done.
The leather reclining chair spotted alongside the tracks made me wonder, and more than wonder. Admittedly, there’s a few homeless camps in the area, but – wow – it must have been quite an expenditure of effort to get that heavy leather chair to this spot. Odd.
– photo by Mitch Waxman
There’s a small bridge which is part of the roadway, one which overflies the aforementioned rail tracks. It’s a neat spot to get rail shots from, and it’s one of several spots where I’ve ‘gotten lucky’ in the past.
Again – to be clear – not railfanning. I just like taking photos of trains.
Saying that – back tomorrow with some Choo-Choo.
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