The blast furnaces at US Steel's Edgar Thomson Works are always hungry. Running around the clock they survive on a steady diet of iron ore, and the Union has another load of ore to feed the beasts... (more)
A fresh load of slabs out of Edgar Thomson Works is on the roll out of the plant. The slabs are destined for the Irvin Works located a few miles up the Monongahela River in Dravosburg. There the s... (more)
A UP SD70M brings the EC-5 south.
Light snow covers the southwestern Pennsylvania area as a Union Railroad ore train utilizes the High Grade Bridge as it approaches USX's Edgar Thompson Works. The gons in the foreground reside on ... (more)
It's Pronounced Duːkeɪn (or "Doo-Cane")A Union Railroad empty steel slab train passes through the railroad's Duquesne Yard in, of all places, Duquesne, Pennsylva... (more)
A southbound Union Railroad consist rolls over one of the massive bridges in Turtle Creek approaching East Pittsburgh.
In 1936–1939 Baldwin Locomotive Works built nine 0-10-2 steam locomotives for the Union Railroad. Since these were the only locomotives ever built in the United States to this wheel arrangement ... (more)
Bringing up the rear of a southbound Union Railroad loaded ore train is URR caboose number 101 at milepost 2 along the North Bessemer Branch in Penn Hills, PA.
The Union RR prepares to set off a cut of cars for Norfolk Southern at the interchange track in Homestead, PA.
They were known as "buffalo", due to their somewhat ungainly appearance. The Union railroad had a large fleet of Baldwin road switchers that they re-engined with EMD prime movers in the early 1960... (more)
Three Union Railroad switchers are seen working at Homestead, near the Marcegaglia USA steel pipe and tube company.
A Union Railroad switcher has some gondolas from the Camp Hill pipe mill in McKeesport, next to the CSX main line.
