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Depot Square Publishing. Hardcover. New. This is the first of two volumes on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The city of Pittsburgh had the potential to be a major industrial center but for the freight discrimination imposed by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Every new rail outlet built to offer an alternative to the Pennsy was eventually taken over by that company. The only route left was a narrow corridor along the Monongahela River threading through steel mills. lead works, glass factories, and other industries. Pittsburgh yearned for independent rail service but was unable to secure it until William McCreery, John Dravo, James Bennett, Jacob Henrici and the Harmony Society, and others banded together to found and construct the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. Building on four miles of trestle work through South Side - at times into the Monongahela River - to get to McKees Rocks, the P&LE eventually reached Youngstown, Ohio where connections were made with the Lake Shore…
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