The Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company was founded, as part of the Jones Laughlin Steel Company, in 1885. While most of the railroad's work was for its parent company, it also contracted with other companies.
This collection specifically deals with the building of the Pittsburgh Tri-Port Terminal in 1966. The port was proposed to "offer prompt movement of products for rail, truck and river delivery." It was to be used to load or unload river barges for transfer to trucks or railroad. The port was intended to reduce truck traffic over city streets which were unsuitable for heavy traffic. It allowed piggyback shipments to become available to one hundred communities in the midwest and eastern United States under one original bill of lading.
The Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, on a much smaller scale, is still in existence today.
The collection reflects the activities of the Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company in connection with the building of the Pittsburgh Tri-Port Terminal during 1966. The collection consists of one box and a poster tube, containing maps, plans for railroad and proposed Inland Water Port and Pittsburgh Rail-Port, correspondence, description of the port project, building plans, calculations, inspection forms, materials, and a 100th Anniversary booklet.
In 2023, ten maps of both the Monongahela Connecting Railroad facilities in Hazelwood and of the Aliquippa & Southern Railroad yards in Aliquippa and Ambridge.
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This collection was a gift of the Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company, February 7, 1997.
2023 Additions recieved as a gift from Karen Bates.
Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company Records, 1931-1997, AIS.1997.03, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh
Monongahela Connecting Railroad Company Records, 1931-1997, AIS.1997.03, Archives & Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh Library System
This collection was processed by Jaime Hamel on October 18, 2004
Revision for the encoded version of the finding aid provided by Andy Newman in November 2004. Information about the collection title and the controlled access terms was extracted from the MARC record in the University of Pittsburgh catalog Voyager ID number: 4424128
Additions added in 2023.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of the University of Pittsburgh as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
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