Sign-In
Cart
Off The Rails PGH: Crazy history from Pittsburgh's past - Volume One
Paperback
Series: Off the Rails Pgh
Fiction AnthologiesGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 27 2026
Pages: 56
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Most of it is true. The parts that aren't announce themselves by getting stranger.
Pittsburgh used to run on streetcars. One line - the old 42 through the South Hills - is the direct ancestor of the train people still ride today: the Red Line. Off the Rails gets off at one stop along that line at a time, and tells you what really happened there.
Three stories. One ride.
Silver Dollar Nose - In 1917, four men looked up from a bowl of soup at a coal-town bank that bragged in cast iron it could not be robbed. What followed was a botched holdup, an empty shotgun, a chase by funeral hearse, and more than $18,000 that walked out of Castle Shannon and was never seen again.
The Quiet and the Loud - A career burglar who believed locks were only a suggestion breaks into the wrong dark house in 1959 - and ends a July afternoon pinned to a green West End hillside while two hundred armed men, a machine gun, a helicopter, and half the city look on.
What Alexandria Knew (bonus track) - The line rides clean out of Pittsburgh and back to 300 BC, following one hard-won idea - the truth about the human heart - as it's discovered, buried for fourteen hundred years, and finally proven miles from where you're sitting.
True crime, local legend, and narrative history from the old corridor - for readers who like their facts strange and their Pittsburgh close enough to go stand on.
An Outbound Redline series.
Also in
General Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Anniversaries, Volume 2: From a Year in the Life of Gesine Cresspahl, April 1968-August 1968
Johnson, Uwe
Paperback
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
Selected Writings: Robert Musil: Young Torless, Three Women, the Perfecting of a Love, and Other Writings
Musil, Robert
Agee, Joel
Paperback
Before Gatsby: The First Twenty-Six Stories
Baughman, Judith
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Bruccoli, Matthew J.
Paperback