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| Street View, it is too bad the driver wasn't going in the other direction so that it was in the closer lane. |
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| Rust Belt Railroading posted |
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| Bobby Peck posted Riverton yard crew heading to the Mon Sub to work some industries 1992 |
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| Brandon Peck commented on Bobby's post Years ago Timothy Cross: CSX eastbound picked a switch that day. Part of the train wanted to go east on the Mon Division |
"1881 trusses replaced in 1968 for B&O mainline relocation" [BridgeHunter-railroad]
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| P&LE Photo via HistoricPittsburgh, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) |
This is an example "of an exceedingly rare variety of arch bridge, that of a crescent arch. The design of a crescent arch is that of an arch which begins as a solid rib, which splits apart and becomes a braced rib in the middle of the span." [HistoricBridges-vehicle]
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| Lee Paxton Photo via BridgeHunter-vehicle, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) |
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| Jacob H. Ford Photography posted Here's another shot I took this afternoon in McKeesport, from a vantage point I discovered at a dead end aly off of Pickway Aly. I thought it was an interesting vantage point of the Jerome Street Bridge. I waited for a Port Authority Bus to travel over the bridge before I took this shot, and centered the bus in this composition as well. What I also like about this shot is the McKeesport/Duquesne Bridge is in the background, with a few buildings in downtown McKeesport behind the bridge, and I intentionally included some boats docked in the Youghiogheny River below the bridge to keep more of a summer theme. I also used a tree branch in the left of the frame to help frame the train trestle in the far left of the the frame. Enjoy! Photo taken: June 15, 2024 |
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| Jacob H. Ford Photography posted Here's another one of my favorite shots from yesterday morning in McKeesport, as I parked at the recently renovated and dedicated, Richard J. Gergely Park. It ended up being a great place to begin my exploration around some of McKeesport, as the Lysle Boulevard Bridge really drew my attention with it's fresh coat of paint from a few years ago, according to a few locals of the area who had commented on my shot from last night. I framed the bridge between the trees, while centering the bench in this composition, as a train passed in the background over the train trestle spanning behind and alongside the Lysle Bouleveard Bridge. The sky was absolutely gorgeous yesterday! With a lot of the trees in the Mon Valley having leafed out over the last few days, it really brings compositions such as ones like this to life! I still have plenty more shots to share with you all from McKeesport, but here is another one for now. Enjoy! Photo taken: April 20, 2024 📸: Jacob H. Ford Photography |
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| Jacob H. Ford Photography posted I posted a similar shot as this one that I had taken last Saturday, but this shot is slightly different, with a slightly different angle and perspective. In this shot, I decided not to center the train, but rather frame this shot so that one bridge was on the left and the Jerome Street Bridge was on the right. With the train off center, this shot puts a bit more emphasis on the bridges with the train being an additional detail rather than the subject like in the previous shot I took within seconds of this one, and though the shot I already shared with you on Saturday was my favorite, I still really liked this shot as well, and thought that it was different enough that some of you may still like this one as well. Maybe some of you like this one even better? I'd like to hear your thoughts, so feel free to share them. Anyways, it was an absolutely beautiful morning last Saturday, and I felt pretty lucky and at the right place at the right time to have captured a train traveling towards me while standing on Ramp #1 onto Lysle Boulevard, to have captured this shot. I'm not sure how many times each day a train comes through here. Maybe it's more often than I think it could be, but either way I definitely still felt pretty lucky and fortunate to have captured this shot. Enjoy! Photo taken: April 20, 2024 📸: Jacob H. Ford Photography |
This is another example in Pennsylvania of where the space is so narrow between the river and the hills that they built the turnout for a branch on the bridge.
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| Jeffrey McDonough posted Not my photo .. bridge is at the intersection of the mon river and the yough river near McKeesport pa , I think it’s a pretty cool structure. Chuck Considine |
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| On The Road in Pennsylvania added The B & O (Baltimore & Ohio) and the P & LE (Pittsburgh & Lake Erie) Railroad Bridge 🌉, that crosses the Youghiogheny River. This snapshot 📷 🌎 🇺🇸 was taken from the B & O side of the river, at Broadford, PA in Fayette County, on May 22nd, 2002. Photograph courtesy of Jack D. Kuiphoff. On The Road in Pennsylvania I hope you Enjoy! 🙂 😉 🙂 Jeffrey Linton shared David Paul: The location where it came in the B&O was called "West Yough" (pronounced West Yock) |
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| William Novak commented on Jeffery's post Look out below! (From the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, June 8, 2014. On CSX.) [Looking at street views, there was a road under that part of the bridge.] |
"This bridge was built in 1968 and is an extremely late example of a truss bridge that uses rivets in its construction. Specifically, rivets are used in the built-up members. Connections are bolted. The lack of v-lacing and lattice in all built-up members is also typical for this late era in riveted built-up beams. Approach spans are welded girders, with no rivets." [HistoricBridges-railroad] It struct me that, because of the nearby road bridge, I can get a closeup of the members. I can clearly see where bolts were used to fasten the members, but I can't see where rivets were used to build the members.
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