Description: Volume 22 Part I 376 Pages, Hardback, 80 lb silk paper, 500 plus FIRST TIME photos, great maps and details, very significant datesLimited books printed. Covers Union Railroad to Monongahela River (Mon), the Dexter Lead and across URR Mon River to J tower, the to old and unknown URR Green Springs Route to Munhall and onto to USS Homestead. Plus URR Mon shops. Color thru out the book with circa 40 page color section review at the end Then back to East side of the Mon to URR, Pittsburgh's Railroad in the Sky the URR.Covers North Bessemer and B&LE--good stuff if you are a B&LE fan, Univeral Slag dumps, construction of Turtle Creek viaduct, and finally once again to Mon River. Plus Hall shops, URR steam review, and coal mine maps. Then circa 50 page history on ET, Bessmer Converter era, open heaths, BOFs, slab mills and ingots. This actually begins Half Gone ghost and downsizing and abandonment of USS in Mon Valley and the URR as well. Next URR Braddock Branch To Carrie Furnace. Then south side of the Mon River Rankin Bridge to Carrie Furnaces circa 50 pages on Carrie Furnace. Important Blast Furnace dates for the historian, URR high line photos to blast furnaces, great shots of BFs and ore facilities and little known Denniston Yard and connection to B&O and URR Braddock Branch. Good stuff. Finally, over the Mon to USS Homestead, 50 pages circa, open hearths--going back to the turn of the century. URR F Yard, the long hot metal trestle to OH4 and impressive shots of OH5 and then down the Mon to Ingot Stripping Building and to the extreme west end connection at Hays and PRR and modern day Sandcastle. This section like Part II tremendous undertaking. Part II USS Duquesne, Ingot Bridge to USS McKeesport and their facility, URR Classification Yard, Irvin Plant of USS, Fisher Body, Clairton Steel and Coke Works (authors favorite) to across the Mon on the Wyle Bridge and URR South End connection with P&LE, a coal mine, near Glassport. The ending is a Mifflin with excellent coverage of slag dumps and industries (like Ford plant, a URR chair industry) at Mifflin with some great little known coverage of Montour RR! and first time photos
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