Tag: Montour Trail

  • Fall Colors on the Montour Trail

    Fall colors on the Montour Trail

    A few scenes along a short stretch of the trail in Moon Township.

    Picnic table
    Bridge on the Montour Trail
    Bridge on the Montour Trail
    A yellow wood
    Fallen leaves
    Fall colors
    Bridge
    Sumac and maple
    Red, yellow, green
    Fall colors on the Montour Trail
    A curve in the trail
    Nikon COOLPIX P100.
  • ’Tis Autumn

    Leaves on the ground

    These are all pictures taken directly from the camera without any processing—as close to unmediated natural beauty as photography can give you. They were taken in Bird Park, Mount Lebanon, and near the Montour Trail, Moon Township.

    Dandelion clock
    Golden leaves
    Seeds of Ageratina altissima
    More golden leaves
    Orange maple leaves
    Maple leaves behind a tree trunk
    Maple tree in fall plumage
    Kodak EasyShare Z1285; Fujifilm FinePix HS10.
  • By the Montour Railroad in Imperial

    Caboose

    The Imperial station on the Montour Railroad has become, with much remodeling, the Findlay Township Activity Center, which residents can rent for (you probably guessed already) activities. A neat little red caboose sits beside the old railroad bed, which is now the Montour Trail.

    Findlay Township Activity Center and caboose
    Findlay Township Activity Center
    Caboose
    Caboose
    Canon PowerShot SX150 IS.
  • Montour Trail

    Jogger on the Montour Trail

    The Montour Trail claims to be the nation’s longest suburban rail-trail. That is a matter of definition, of course: the trail connects to the Great Allegheny Passage, a rail-trail that goes through suburbs of at least three major cities—Pittsburgh, Cumberland, and Washington. But the Montour Trail is entirely within the Pittsburgh suburbs. It follows the path of the old Montour Railroad, which carried mostly coal until it finally gave up the ghost in the 1980s.

    Looking across a bridge
    Bicyclist crossing a bridge

    There are many short bridges along the trail, because it follows Montour Run for much of its length, and trains cannot afford to be as whimsical in their curves as small rivers often are.

    Bridge
    The date 1920 stamped in concrete
    Kodak EasyShare Z1285; Kodak EasyShare Z981.

    This bridge is prominently dated in the concrete.