Three URR switchers and a caboose returning from Braddock.
After taking a train to USX's ET plant in Braddock, URR 17 has returned to Duquesne for its next assignment.
As viewed from across the Monongahela, URR 19 shuffles coke cars in Dexter Yard.
A rare bird on the Union, the only engine that was painted green. Photographer is standing in Duquesne, the train is in Braddock.
Taking a break from switching duties at the USX Irvin Works, URR #8 idles away on a pleasant September night.
One of eight SW1500s on the Union RR roster shoves scrap metal gons at the east end of the ET Works. This unit was recently retrofitted for remote-controlled operation.
The Union is returning south out of North Bessemer with empty coke hoppers interchanged from the Bessemer & Lake Erie. The ex-DM&IR SD9 rebuild has since been retired.
A URR tactonite ore train heads south for the USX ET Works with 4 MP15DC's hard at work.
Three Union switchers work behind US Steel's sprawling ET plant. The miniscule locomotives give one a sense of just how massive a steel mill is.
Empty hoppers from the Bessemer. This train crossed over and took the branch between the main and Turtle Creek.
Loaded Clairton coke bound for Edgar Thomson Works in Braddock crosses Grant St in West Mifflin.
This shot made possible due to the cooperation of clouds - cloudy weather often facilitates views not otherwise possible. Here, the loaded Clairton coke train grinds upgrade out of the Dravosburg... (more)
