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FuzzPunkMutt t1_jeey4nq wrote

I rode across the Hot Metal Bridge a few days ago; is this a new bridge near the furnace or are they re-building the current bridge?

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Eubadom t1_jeeyhxa wrote

It's the abandoned bridge along the GAP just past the Waterfront. It's being repurposed.

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Aggravating_Foot_528 t1_jeezof7 wrote

It's 2 different bridges with the same name.

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tinacat933 t1_jefax6l wrote

Why?

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leadfoot9 t1_jefexwj wrote

I think it's because the moniker is just descriptive:
It was a bridge used to cart hot, liquid metal across the river from one part of a steel plant to another.

So, it may have been a mistake to start referring to "The" Hot Metal Bridge.

Also, I recently learned that, on the South Side, the Hot Metal bridge is properly the bike/pedestrian bridge. The car bridge is the Monongahela Railroad Bridge or something like that.

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Aggravating_Foot_528 t1_jeferyq wrote

Because both carried hot metal across the river. It was quite common for a plant to span the river with a bridge in between.

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tinacat933 t1_jeflr6j wrote

Right, but having the same name isn’t super confusing or anything.

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Aggravating_Foot_528 t1_jefp2tk wrote

these bridges were just factory bridges. So there was no reason to name it anything else. Cars carrying molten material just went back and forth.

I guess it would be up to the people rehabbing the current unused hot metal bridge to change it.

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beefbarley t1_jef82p2 wrote

Is it the one right next to the Glenwood bridge? Like at Sandcastle?

Edit: it's not. It's next to the Rankin Bridge on the other end of the Waterfront

Edit 2: it's also near (I kid you not) Union Railroad Hot Metal Bridge - Port Perry

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Bolmac t1_jegi3l9 wrote

The one you’re thinking of still carries local train traffic.

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wagsman t1_jef7a7s wrote

Is this that old railroad bridge next to Sandcastle or is it the one on the other side of Homestead waterfront?

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Cooch98 OP t1_jefwazq wrote

It’s the one that connects to the Carrie Furnace Site by Rankin

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