Commission worries demolition will hamper future development at the historic Lawrenceville landmark Monday, January 10, 2011 By Diana Nelson Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [caption id="attachment_8410" align="alignleft" width="330" caption="The pipe shop portion of the closed Iron City Brewery is falling apart at the Lawrenceville landmark, on which the city has bestowed historic status. Bill ... Read More
Friday, November 05, 2010 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Washington County Commissioners have approved a $971,000 federal grant application to refurbish the Fredericktown Ferry, better known as Fred, which links two tiny towns separated by the Monongahela River. Fayette County officials signed off on the application last year. The Port of Pittsburgh Commission recommended repairing the ... Read More
By Tony LaRussa
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, November 4, 2010
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By Jeremy Boren PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, September 13, 2010 Federal money intended to plug an unsightly concrete gap next to Interstate 579 might be used at Consol Energy Center instead. At the request of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh, Sen. Bob Casey proposed redirecting the $974,000 earmark to pay for most of ... Read More
Thursday, September 09, 2010
By Candy Woodall, freelance
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Summer may be winding down but Ray Dougherty already is preparing for next season at McKees Point Marina ... Read More
James D. Van Trump Library | Frank B. Fairbanks Transportation Archive | Fairbanks Features
Showcasing a variety of materials located in the Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive
No. 7 Presentation
Fairbanks Feature: Playing Cards from Well Known Rail ... Read More
James D. Van Trump Library | Frank B. Fairbanks Transportation Archive | Fairbanks Features
Showcasing a variety of materials located in the Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive
No. 6 Presentation
Pittsburgh Union Station Railroad Signs
The Frank Fairbanks Rail Transportation ... Read More
James D. Van Trump Library | Frank B. Fairbanks Transportation Archive | Fairbanks Features
Showcasing a variety of materials located in the Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive
No. 5 Presentation
Two books from the Lindsay Publications Catalog
The Lindsay Publications ... Read More
James D. Van Trump Library | Frank B. Fairbanks Transportation Archive | Fairbanks Features
Showcasing a variety of materials located in the Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive
No. 4 Presentation
Correspondence (to and from) Frank Fairbanks, Jr.: 1950 – 2005
Frank ... Read More
James D. Van Trump Library | Frank B. Fairbanks Transportation Archive | Fairbanks Features
Showcasing a variety of materials located in the Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive
No. 3 Presentation
Two Important Donated Railroad Atlases Ready ... Read More
James D. Van Trump Library | Frank B. Fairbanks Transportation Archive | Fairbanks Features
Showcasing a variety of materials located in the Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive
No. 2 Presentation:
The Wayne A. Cole Collection––Ghost Rail series and other ... Read More
James D. Van Trump Library | Frank B. Fairbanks Transportation Archive | Fairbanks Features
Showcasing a variety of materials located in the Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive
No. 1 Presentation:
The James J. Hill Story, Yesterday and Today
This ... Read More
By Adam Brandolph TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, February 19, 2008 The tunnel-boring machine for the North Shore Connector project is more than 50 feet underground, but businesses on the other side of the river at Stanwix Street are feeling the shock waves. Some business owners say they have lost customers since July, when the road ... Read More
By Adam Brandolph TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, February 19, 2008 The tunnel-boring machine for the North Shore Connector project is more than 50 feet underground, but businesses on the other side of the river at Stanwix Street are feeling the shock waves. Some business owners say they have lost customers since July, when the road ... Read More
By Sam Spatter TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, December 13, 2007 There's a proposal to bring new life to the Wilkinsburg train station, which has been vacant since the 1970s. The board of the Redevelopment Authority of Allegheny County last month approved a request from the county's Department of Economic Development to apply for a $15,000 grant ... Read More
Your Gift Will Be Matched and Help Landmarks Obtain this Famous Railroad Photograph
Recently, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation learned that The Fairbanks-Horix Foundation will match, dollar-for-dollar, up to $5,000 of every gift we receive toward the purchase of O. Winston Link’s famous photograph: “The Birmingham Special ... Read More
By Rich Cholodofsky
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, August 17, 2007
Efforts to start commuter rail service from Arnold into Pittsburgh keep chugging along as county transit officials this week received a $500,000 state grant to study whether the project is feasible.
Officials announced ... Read More
Friday, June 01, 2007
By Diana Nelson Jones,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
As the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation begins its final design plans to widen and upgrade Route 28, several organizations are working with PennDot to not only preserve the oldest existing Roman Catholic Croatian ... Read More
By Sandra Fischione Donovan
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, February 25, 2007
Judith Harvey lives in a historic house in Fineview, so she is a history buff by association. When she retired and was looking for a channel for her unbounded ... Read More
By staff and wire reports
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Con artists have tried to sell the Brooklyn Bridge for years, but now two bridges in Pennsylvania really are for sale. First, PennDOT wants to sell the West Hickory Bridge ... Read More
George R. White Tuesday, February 28, 2006 Though its leaders are trying to be optimistic, the Port Authority is scrambling to keep the North Shore Connector alive. The plan to extend light-rail transit to North Shore stadiums was dealt a setback this month: Bids for building tunnels under the Allegheny River were ... Read More
By Joe Grata, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Thursday, February 09, 2006 Forty-three years after the idea was broached, and at least as many meetings and plans later, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has yet another design for rebuilding the hazardous, traffic-clogged stretch of Route 28/East Ohio Street between the North Side and Millvale. Engineers will ... Read More
By Tony LaRussa TRIBUNE-REVIEW Monday, October 3, 2005 When the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese agrees to close church buildings, the decision helps keep parishes from being saddled with buildings they can no longer afford to maintain. But the closing of a church often raises a red flag for people who want to save historically ... Read More
By Jim Ritchie TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, April 27, 2005 Norfolk Southern Railway Co. is negotiating with PennDOT to provide land for widening Route 28 in Pittsburgh, which could speed commute times and possibly spare the vacant St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church. Only a sidewalk separates St. Nicholas -- the nation's first Croatian Catholic church ... Read More
Sunday, August 22, 2004 Eliza and the South Side. Oh, the talk that was generated by that hot and heavy relationship. The long separated pair are scheduled to be linked again in 2006 when the Hot Metal Bridge over the Monongahela River is scheduled to re-open for bicyclists and pedestrians. I can just ... Read More
By Joe Grata, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Wednesday, June 23, 2004 "Alternative 13" could prove a lucky number for resolving controversy over a two-mile stretch of Route 28 between the North Side and Millvale. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will organize a special task force in cooperation with the Riverlife Task Force to resolve differences ... Read More
By Joe Grata, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Thursday, June 17, 2004 A number of Pittsburgh groups, including the Riverlife Task Force, have suggested that the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation and its consultant go back to the drawing board with alternatives for rebuilding Route 28. They suggested that a new PennDOT "hybrid" plan, with six miles ... Read More
By Joe Grata, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Friday, August 22, 2003 A city group has offered a new engineering concept to untangle the traffic mess on a stretch of Route 28 where the 31st Street Bridge and Rialto Street intersect it. The design would accommodate local traffic on a landscaped deck at the existing ... Read More
By Joe Grata, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Thursday, July 17, 2003 Alternative designs initiated by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation only six months ago appear to be gaining support for the eventual reconstruction of a two-mile stretch of Route 28 between the North Side and Millvale. Both options would save St. Nicholas Church, the ... Read More
By Jim Ritchie TRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, July 17, 2003 PennDOT won't decide until early 2004 whether to rebuild Route 28 through the St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Church or around the Pittsburgh-designated historic building. Those who want to spare the church are happy now that PennDOT is considering two new ways of improving a 2-mile stretch ... Read More
By David M. Brown TRIBUNE-REVIEW Tuesday, July 15, 2003 State transportation officials on Monday unveiled two proposals for widening Route 28 that would spare the historic St. Nicholas Church on the North Side. Two other proposals still under consideration, however, put the 100-year-old building in the path of a wrecking ball. Pittsburgh City Council ... Read More
By Jim Ritchie TRIBUNE-REVIEW Friday, April 12, 2002 The West Busway could relieve the Downtown congestion caused by the Fort Pitt Tunnel closing by allowing access to car poolers, according to a Downtown agency's recommendations. "The agonies of the Fort Pitt closing are showing up as unmanageable congestion in the triangle," said George White, ... Read More
December 10, 2001 Pittsburgh, Pa. . . . . Duquesne Light, the Electric Distribution Company for Pittsburgh, PA, USA, announced in November 2001 a major grant to INTA member Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation (Landmarks) to design and install a lighting system for the first of 13 downtown bridges, the Roberto ... Read More
Wednesday, November 28, 2001 By Mike Bucsko, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Duquesne Light Co. yesterday agreed to pay for decorative lighting on the Roberto Clemente Bridge. It's the first of what the city hopes will be a long line of benefactors paying to light more than a dozen bridges that line Pittsburgh's three rivers ... Read More
11/27/2001 Tribune Review Preservationists, planners and business leaders will gather at the center of the Roberto Clemente Bridge at 11 a.m. today to discuss a joint effort to illuminate the city's bridges. "I think it's just sort of a grand, picturesque scenario," said Rod Frantz, acting manager of the new Bridge Lighting Initiative. ... Read More