Elephant style 40s lead the way west past US Steel's Edgar Thompson Works. Note the hot metal train picking up speed for the ramp to the caster mill about ten cars back from 389's power.

A very late Q137 heads west by the Edgar Thomson Works, opened in 1875 and still going strong.

Q277 heads west along the Monongahela River with U.S. Steel's Edgar Thomson Works in the background. Three ET switchers and several hot metal cars are in the yard today.

Q277 heads west by the Mon River dam. The bridge overhead belongs to the Union Railroad.

Empty ore bucket head back to the ore fields.

V905 heads west past ET's blast furnaces with a surprise SD80MAC leader. The Westinghouse Bridge is in the background.

A late running Amtrak makes a daylight appearance in the steel town of Braddock on the CSX Pittsburgh Sub. URR's yard is to the right.

Q217 heads by what is just a small fraction of the remaining steel works in Pittsburgh.

389 passes the massive ET works. Despite CSX's obvious close proximity to the steel mill, the railroad does not directly service the mill. That duty is left up to the Union Railroad and US Steel's... (more)

Q389 is seen here passing the URR bridge and the Mon River locks.

URR empty ore train travels up the Dexter lead while passing under the only PRR signal bridge on the URR.

The Edgar Thompson Works' close proximity to the Pittsburgh Line is not by chance. When Andrew Carnegie selected the site in 1873, one of the biggest selling points was that the plot of land was b... (more)

MP15s aren't particular large locomotives, but even the biggest of units would be dwarfed by the massive blast furnaces of the ET works. Note the small yard for the Union's unique slab carrier car... (more)