{"product_id":"off-the-rails-pgh-a-c-bridges-9798184607979","title":"Off The Rails PGH: Crazy history from Pittsburgh's past - Volume One","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost of it is true. The parts that aren't announce themselves by getting stranger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePittsburgh 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree stories. One ride.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSilver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrue 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Outbound Redline series.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. C. Bridges\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798184607979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.13d","brand":"A. C. Bridges","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48871440613631,"sku":"9798184607979","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/off-the-rails-pgh-a-c-bridges-9798184607979","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}