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Up the Mon
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Liberty Bridge
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Empty Barges
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The Duchess at PNC Park
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Towboat
HDR stack of three photographs from a Kodak EasyShare Z1285. A towboat moored with a number of barges at Neville Island.
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Where the Ohio Begins
Kodak EasyShare Z981. Looking under the Fort Duquesne Bridge at river traffic at the head of the Ohio, with recreational boats and a barge train.
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The Towboat M. J. Monahan
The towboat M. J. Monahan pushes a big train of coal barges up the Mon. Yes, “towboat” is the correct name for such boats on American rivers, even though they obviously push.
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Brunot Island
Brunot Island, or Brunot’s Island, or Brunots Island, because the Board on Geographic Names “does not recognize the use of the possessive apostrophe,” as Wikipedia puts it (Father Pitt would be willing to explain it to them if they would like to make an appointment), is the first island in the Ohio downstream from Pittsburgh. It was once the home of Dr. Felix Brunot, who built an estate there in the late 1700s, and saw it washed away in a flood in 1811. Now it is home to the Brunot Island Generating Station, and it is inaccessible except by water, by railroad, or by a private pedestrian walkway for the workers at the power plant. These views were taken from the north shore of the Ohio.
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Barge Train on the Mon
Father Pitt took this picture in November of 2000 from the Smithfield Street Bridge.
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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.
