Boiler and Tank Shop at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Repair Shop

1951

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Boiler and Tank Shop at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Repair Shop
  • Title
  • Boiler and Tank Shop at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Repair Shop
  • Creator
  • L. L. Steinberg Studio
  • Identifier
  • MSP80.B001.F04.I09
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP80.B001.F04.I09
  • Description
  • The Boiler and Tank Shop in the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad repair shop facility, built by the Trimble Company of Pittsburgh. This enormous facility was used primarily by the Railroad to repair and maintain freight cars and locomotives The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad operations in Pittsburgh were second only to the Pennsylvania Railroad. According to figures by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the railroad’s share of freight business in the United States fell from a high of 70 percent in 1946 to less than 40 percent in 1983. As the coal was mined out and the steel industry fell into decline in the 1970s, freight service to and from downtown Pittsburgh ended in 1982.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company.Repair Shop.
    Commercial buildings.
  • Source
  • Trimble Company Photographs, 1924-1951, MSP 80, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Trimble Company Records
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Senator John Heinz History Center
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  • Rights Holder
  • Senator John Heinz History Center