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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Under the Boulevard of the Allies
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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.
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A Lot of Bridges
Above: the West End Bridge over the Ohio, with the Ohio Connecting Railroad Bridge behind it, and the McKees Rocks Bridge behind that. Below, the Allegheny, with the Fort Duquesne Bridge, the Three Sisters, the Fort Wayne railroad bridge, the Veterans Bridge, and the Sixteenth Street Bridge. For extra credit, see if you can point out the Twenty-Eighth Street Bridge. (Click on the picture to make it very big.)
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The Mon
Looking east up the Monongahela River from Mount Washington.
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Sun and Shade
Patterns of sun and shade on the rocks in the middle of Saw Mill Run, Seldom Seen, with a railroad bridge in the background.
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Construction on the Rachel Carson Bridge
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Panhandle Bridge
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Hot Metal Bridge
This rehabilitated pair of bridges gets its name from the fact that the downstream span was used to transport hot metal across the river between the two sections of the giant J&L steel plant. The upstream span (which technically used to be the Monongahela Connecting Railroad Bridge) is now open to automobile traffic; the downstream span is reserved for bicycles.
Although official records spell this “Hot Metal Bridge,” it is always pronounced “Hotmetal Bridge,” with the accent on the first syllable.
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Fort Pitt Bridge from Liberty Avenue
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Sixth Street Bridge in Early-Morning Sun
The Roberto Clemente or Sixth Street Bridge is bathed in early-morning sunshine, as seen from the dimness of still-unilluminated Sixth Street downtown.
