Amesteam Boilers in Power Plant at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Repair Shop

1951

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Amesteam Boilers in Power Plant at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Repair Shop

Title
Amesteam Boilers in Power Plant at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Repair Shop
Creator
L. L. Steinberg Studio
Identifier
MSP80.B001.F04.I12
Source Identifier
MSP80.B001.F04.I12
Description
Amesteam Boilers in the power plant at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad repair shop facility. This enormous facility, built by the Trimble Company of Pittsburgh, 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. 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. 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.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.).Repair Shop.
Boilers.
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
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Rights Holder
Senator John Heinz History Center