River Car Ferry

1927

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River Car Ferry
  • Title
  • River Car Ferry
  • Identifier
  • MSP33.B013.F03.I05
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP33.B013.F03.I05
  • Description
  • The “Titan” towboat pushes several loaded barges and a car ferry near the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation’s Pittsburgh Works. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation was the first steel manufacturer to use car ferries to transport loaded freight cars between its Pittsburgh and Aliquippa Works. The barges, which were 200 feet long, 25 feet wide and 9 feet deep, could accommodate eight freight cars each and were built in the Jones & Laughlin boat yards along the Monongahela River in the South Side neighborhood of Pittsburgh. In the background spanning the Monongahela River is the Monongahela Connecting Railroad Bridge and Hot Metal Bridge, erected in 1887.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Towboats.
    Train ferries.
    Barges.
    Hot Metal Bridge (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
    Monongahela River (W. Va. and Pa.)
    Titan (Towboat)
  • Source
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Collection Photographs, 1864-1953, MSP 33, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation Photographs
  • Rights Information
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