The little human-sized buildings along Fort Pitt Boulevard originally faced the Monongahela Wharf, where the steamboats lined up.
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Firstside
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Bridges on the Monongahela
The Panhandle Bridge, in the foreground, carries trolleys across the Monongahela River. Behind that, the Liberty Bridge; then the Tenth Street Bridge; and in the distance, the Birmingham Bridge. Below, a slightly different framing of the same view.
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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.
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Monongahela River
Looking upstream from the West End Overlook.
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Early-Morning Skyline
A new day dawns in the city. Below, with bonus coal barge.
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Sunrise on the Monongahela
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Fort Pitt Bridge from the Smithfield Street 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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Firstside
Firstside is the row of nineteenth-century commercial buildings facing what used to be the Monongahela Wharf. At one end is the Conestoga Building, one of the first steel-cage skyscrapers; at the other is the modernist Westinghouse Building.
