Back on 10-7-04 a friend and I made an Autumn trip to Pennsylvania landing at Pittsburgh that morning.  After getting the rental car we started east and stopped about 6 miles out of Pittsburgh at Homestead, PA where we found an impressive bridge crossing the Monongahela River between Rankin and Homestead.  This is the CSX (former P&LE RR) bridge that was once double tracked.  In 1968 the bridge was single tracked, note the wide piers the bridge rests upon.

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