E. Carnegie a forgotten neighborhood of the City of Pittsburgh which Borders Scott Twp and Carnegie Pa.
Its a mix of residential and Commercial structures and one of its main streets is Idelwood Ave.
and as you leave the residential area and start up around the bend you pass a set of cyclone fence gates and mini guard shack that have been abandoned for man years and if you further explore you will find some strange concrete structures.
It closed around 40 years ago but at one time it was a very active place.
It was owned and operated by Browning Ferris who had a contract with the city of Pittsburgh to handle its refuse and for many years trucks came down Idelwood and came to this transfer facility where they would offload garbage to large hoppers which where then taken by tractor trailer to browning Ferris dump some where in west hills. when they lost the contract it was locked up and closed. but shortly before it permanently closed a bizarre incident happened.
Across the valley from the transfer facility is a plant which makes vegetable Oil mallet Industries and in 1980 while I was working there as a guard for CPP security on a patrol as I was rounding the oil tanks that stored fuel oil for the large boiler system I heard a loud shot ring out and bullet hit one of the tanks.
I looked across the valley to see an individual in a white jump suit with a riffle in his hands aiming at the tanks. I immediately ran for a phone and called police as did some neighbors who also heard the shots and Pittsburgh and Carnegie police responded but where not able to find the individual he had fled. Police thought maybe was a disgruntled employee present or former but why wear a white jump suit which made him stand out?
Luckily that was only time he tried it and never heard of another incident involving the plant, which still operates to this day.
it could have been
catastrophic to environment had he succeeded in puncturing the tanks or
even possibly caused an explosion. But he was far enough away bullets
just bounced. as far as I and police know he was not aiming for me .
