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Drilling Rig at the Fort Pitt Tunnel

1958

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Drilling Rig at the Fort Pitt Tunnel
  • Title
  • Drilling Rig at the Fort Pitt Tunnel
  • Identifier
  • MSP285.B011.F06.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP285.B011.F06.I02
  • Description
  • The special truck-mounted "jumbo” drilling rig used to bore two tubes of the Fort Pitt Tunnel was designed and constructed by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation. Jumbo’s 12 steel drills could bore holes up to ten feet deep at the same time. Seen here, the drill is just beginning to bore into the sheer face of stone at the base of Mount Washington on the south end of the tunnels.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Fort Pitt Tunnel (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Drilling rigs--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs, 1892-1981, MSP 285, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Allegheny Conference on Community Development Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. 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.
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