Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Bridge.
(Jet Lowe, National Park Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
BESSEMER AND LAKE ERIE RAILROAD BRIDGE (ALLEGHENY RIVER)
The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Bridge is a truss bridge that carries the Canadian National Railway's Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad division across the Allegheny River between the Pittsburgh suburbs of Plum and Harmar Township, Pennsylvania. In 1897, a single-track trestle and viaduct was built on this site; in 1918, the original piers were doubled in width, the current double-tracked structure built alongside, and then slid into place. The original north trestle approach was buried in slag dumped from an adjacent temporary filling trestle.
3/4 view, looking SW from north bank, showing spans over back channel, with Pennsylvania Turnpike in background. - Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, Allegheny River Bridge, Spanning Allegheny River, East of Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-76), Oakmont, Allegheny County, PA.
(Lowe, Jet, Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), sponsor, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)