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RAILROADS -- A PART OF THE PITTSBURGH PLAN

SECTION IV
RAILROADS SERVING THE PITTSBURGH DISTRICT
EXISTING TRACK AND YARD FACILITIES
RECOMMENDED IMPROVEMENT

The Pittsburgh District is served by six trunk line railroads and sixteen industrial and connecting lines. These are listed below:

Trunk Line Railroads

Pennsylvania Railroad System
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad (New York Central)
Pittsburgh & West Virginia Railway; and West Side Belt Railroad
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway
Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad

Industrial and Connecting Lines

Montour Railroad (Passenger and freight service)
Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny Railroad (Freight service only)
Monongahela Connecting Railroad
Allegheny & South Side Railway
Union Railroad System (included with the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad)
Pittsburgh, Allegheny & McKees Rocks Railroad
McKeesport Connecting Railroad
McKeesport Terminal Railroad
Pittsburgh & Ohio Valley Railway
Etna & Montrose Railroad
South Shore Railroad
Pittsburgh & Allegheny River Railroad
Northern Liberties Railway
Pennsylvania Western & Ohio Connecting Railroad
Aliquippa & Southern Railroad
Cheswick & Harmar Railroad

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Source document: Citizens Committee on City Plan of Pittsburgh. "Railroads of the Pittsburgh district : a part of the Pittsburgh plan." p. 19-34. Pittsburgh, Pa : Citizens Committee on City Plan of Pittsburgh, [1923], c1924.