. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . kmmT^iA JioiiihPittsM! WHITMORE, WOLFF, LANE & HARDWARE m I m ^ m m Og g 5 In the Centennial Year. 197 The ?>dgar Thomson Stekl Works. The above company for the production of steel rails is a speeiality among thesteel works of Pittsburgh, being constructed and worked solely for the makingof rails. The works are located at Bessemer, on the main line of the Pennsyl-Tania railroad, and on the Connellsville division of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road. They command also for transportation facilities the entire railroad systemWest an
. Pittsburgh and Allegheny in the centennial year . kmmT^iA JioiiihPittsM! WHITMORE, WOLFF, LANE & HARDWARE m I m ^ m m Og g 5 In the Centennial Year. 197 The ?>dgar Thomson Stekl Works. The above company for the production of steel rails is a speeiality among thesteel works of Pittsburgh, being constructed and worked solely for the makingof rails. The works are located at Bessemer, on the main line of the Pennsyl-Tania railroad, and on the Connellsville division of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road. They command also for transportation facilities the entire railroad systemWest and South, by a railroad liridge across the .Monongahela river, forming aconnection with the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati it St. Louis Railroad, while theMonongahela river, on which the companys grounds front for ;^,000 feet, givesfacilities of water carriage to and from its very doors over the whole Ohio system of navigation. In their location these works are a most ad-mirable illustration of those receptive and distributive facilities enjoyed by Pitts-burgh manufactories, which are stated in the chapt
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