Looking southward on the Smithfield Street Bridge from Fort Pitt Boulevard, with the Monongahela Incline beginning its descent in the background.
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Smithfield Street Bridge and Monongahela Incline
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Panhandle Bridge
When Amtrak stopped using this bridge and the downtown tunnel into which it led, the Port Authority seized the opportunity. The bridge now carries the streetcars over the Mon and into the subway, the first part of which uses that old railroad tunnel—so that, like many other things in Pittsburgh, our subway is cobbled together from spare parts.
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Trusswork on the Smithfield Street Bridge
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The House Building (and the Smithfield Street Bridge)
The House Building (1902, architect James T. Steen) looms before us as we cross the Smithfield Street Bridge.
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The 1877 Point Bridge
From an old postcard (the back bears a 1906 postmark), this picture gives us a good idea of the scale of freight traffic on the Monongahela. The first Point Bridge was built in 1877 and replaced in 1927; the second one was closed in 1959 but stayed up for eleven more years.
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Sixteenth Street Bridge
The architectural aspects of the Sixteenth Street Bridge, now named for David McCullough, were designed by Warren and Wetmore, the architects of Grand Central Station in New York.
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31st Street Bridge
In order to line up with the street grid of the Strip, the 31st Street Bridge has an odd kink at the south end. Here we see it from Wiggins Street, Polish Hill.
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Infrastructure
Trusswork under the north end of the Liberty Bridge.
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Monongahela River
Looking upstream from the West End Overlook.
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West End Bridge
Viewed from the West End Overlook during early evening rush hour.
