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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD BRIDGE AT BROWNSVILLE, PA. Description: The historic Pennsylvania Railroad bridge spanning the Monongahela River north of U.S. Route 40 at Brownsville, Pennsylvania. Brownsville served as a major transfer point for westbound freight during the early decades of the 1800s. Conestoga wagons traveling over the National Road from Cumberland, Maryland, typically transferred their cargoes to barges for shipment downstream to Pittsburgh and beyond. Credit: Photo by the Historic American Engineering Record. Courtesy of the Library of Congress (HAER, PA,26-BROVI,5-x). |
RELATED LINKS: Route of Meriwether Lewis from Harpers Ferry, Va. to Pittsburgh, Pa. |
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