Little mineral stalactites dangle from the railroad overpass over 21st Street, South Side.
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Under the Railroad Overpass, South Side
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Skeleton of a Railroad Overpass
At the back of the South Side, where the Flats meet the Slopes, two railroads once ran above the level of the streets. One is still one of the busiest rail lines in the city. The other has been abandoned, leaving rusty skeletons like this. In dreamy moods, old Pa Pitt likes to imagine how this right-of-way—only three short blocks from Carson Street—could be repurposed for a South Side El that would connect to the subway at Station Square.
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Birmingham Bridge
Seen from the south end.
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Fort Pitt Bridge from the Smithfield Street Bridge
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Fort Duquesne Bridge
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Crossing the Monongahela in a Trolley
From Station Square across the river into the subway tunnel. You can also download a full-resolution version from the Wikimedia Commons file page.
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Smithfield Street Bridge
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Subway Crossing First Avenue
The “subway” is an elevated line by the time it crosses First Avenue on its way into the First Avenue station. In the background, three skyscrapers—front to back and shortest to tallest, the Jones & Laughlin Building (now the John P. Robin Civic Building), the Grant Building, and One Oxford Centre.
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Under the Boulevard of the Allies
A view eastward on Second Avenue under the Boulevard of the Allies viaduct. Below, the relief and inscription at the Grant Street entrance to the viaduct.
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Seventh Street Bridge with a Plastic Camera
Three pictures from 1999. No one would say that this Imperial fixed-focus twin-lens-reflex camera was a fine piece of optical equipment. But it could take satisfactory pictures, and (as “toy camera” fans all over the Internet insist) its defects are themselves charming in their way.
