Talk:Monongahela Connecting Railroad Bridge

I won't try to fathom the philosophical question of bridge identity, but the Hot Metal Bridge and the Mon Con RR Bridge share the same piers and are feet apart. The only thing that originally warranted the two names was that one carried railroad traffic and the other carried strictly crucibles of molten steel. The website Bridges and Tunnels of Allegheny County treats them on a single webpage and gives its (their?) official name as "Monongahela Connecting Railroad Bridge and Hot Metal Bridge". They consider the Mon Con RR Bridge to be the upstream side of the bridge and the hot metal bridge to be the downsteam side of the bridge. People who live in Pittsburgh just call the whole thing the "Hot Metal Bridge".

Ortcutt 20:45, 30 March 2006 (UTC)