The Newtown Pentacle

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Tuesday

– photo by Mitch Waxman

Just a short post today, carrying a trio of somewhat random photos captured during my various and quite ultramundane travels through the Pittsburgh metro area.

The one above depicts a street level view of the Wheeling & Lake Erie RR outfit’s ‘Rook Yard’ at the border of Carnegie and Green Tree. It was a Sunday, and nothing profound was happening there. Cracked out a shot as I had made a special trip to spy upon them.

The photos in today’s post were largely gathered while operating the Mobile Oppression Platform, a Toyota.

Needless to say, but the car’s transmission was in park mode as the shutter was depressed – before anyone asks or shouts ‘j’accuse.’

– photo by Mitch Waxman

This one is from the evening of Halloween, and was captured in Dormont, where Newtown Pentacle HQ is located, while on foot. It didn’t rain, believe it or not, despite the warnings of the meteorological crew.

Your humble narrator has been feeling pent up, boxed in, and the old wanderlust has recently reignited. Physical limitations due to the ankle dealie have been lessening, and it’s time to bust out of my rusty cage and roam again.

As far as the limitations go… they just set parameters for me to work within at this point, and I’ve also grown quite tired of such matters getting in my way. The ‘will to power’ urge grows within, like a cancer.

– photo by Mitch Waxman

Another ‘behind the wheel’ shot, this time from one of Dormont’s neighboring communities, in Mount Oliver. Something about that converted garage apartment just grabbed me. Very, very, Greg Brady, but with a dystopian air which satisfied me.

Back tomorrow with something a bit more substantial.


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Written by Mitch Waxman

November 25, 2025 at 11:00 am

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  1. Agree, that’s an interesting little building, showing what looks like many years of shifting ownership, tv viewing and color preferences, and a strange chimney-like truncated thing on its side, hope its not a real chimney.

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    November 28, 2025 at 7:15 pm


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