Monongahela Railway Company Shops, Water Street & Seventeenth Street, Brownsville, Fayette County, PA
Summary
Significance: The Monongahela Railway Company Shops reflect the support needs of a railroad significant in the coal, coke, and steel industries of Southwest Pennsylvania in the twentieth century, particularly in the era of the 1920s, during the expansion of the Monongahela Railway Company system.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N172
Survey number: HAER PA-218
Building/structure dates: 1903-1925 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1953-1954 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Monongahela Railroad
Monongahela Railway
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail)
Bethlehem Steel Company
Monarch [lathe manufacturer]
Niles [crane manufacturer]
CSX Transportation
Herrin, Dean, project manager
Steel Industry Heritage Corporation, sponsor
Sabadasz, Joel, historian
Jardini, Dave, historian
Pierson, Mark, delineator
Eberly, John G, delineator
Peak, Dana, delineator
Møllnitz, Eva, delineator
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Conviser, Jack, delineator
Location
Brownsville Junction, 40.02004, -79.90673
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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