MOST INCREDIBLE Train Bridge I've Ever Explored! Carrie Furnace Hot Metal Bridge

Lets Cross and Explore an old train bridge that was partly responsible for giving the Steel City its name. This is known as the Carrie Furnace Hot Metal Bridge and the first train to cross it was in 1900. After sitting abandoned for nearly 40yrs, this bridge is about to get a new life. Before that happens, we're going to explore this behemoth from both the land and the air. Not only is there some interesting history with this structure, but its design is rather unique as well. Come along as we cross the Monongahela river and see what remains of the Carrie Furnace Hot Metal Bridge.
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[@JPVideos81]

What an awesome train bridge full of interesting history. Thanks for exploring it with me before any changes take place.

[@scpittman5769]

Great video love abandoned train bridge vids you do 💙

[@user-op1su2by5v]

Yes this is brother and great history also

[@marygreen5461]

that blast furnace area looks like something out of mad max

[@theodoredugranrut8201]

Central California watching

[@christophermears7738]

What a place to put a switch

[@davidross5169]

What a monster.!!!!!very interesting story!!love it!!!!

[@adventureswithnubby]

Very cool explore. Just another part of the history of Pennsylvania.

[@abbysapples2547]

💙This was extremely amazing and very interesting video. I enjoyed every second of it, the aerial footage and the walkthrough. Also the history that you told the story about what it was used for. Even those little balls that you found I used to find them on the railroad near where I live in Lebanon County PA and as a child I never knew what they were. In fact I live less than a quarter mile from the railroad and an intersection. So I love watching your videos about the railroad because I can hear the freight train blasting its horn in the background where I live. Makes it more surreal . My friends I also found glass balls which I guess that was recycled glass that was melted down. When you said on Facebook or somewhere that this bridge is going to be no more I thought they were going to tear it down. But I'm glad that they're converting it into a rail trail. The other thing I really liked was that we got to see a freight train on an existing line while you're on an abandoned line and also the coal barge being pushed by a tugboat. I definitely agree that you were meant to be there exactly at that time. As always stay safe healthy and God bless you, family, friends and all your viewers.❤

[@darlenegood4101]

You have nerves of steel, JP. No way would I be out there. THANKS FOR SHARING THIS AWESOME SITE.

[@garysprandel1817]

Frogs are part of the switch where rails cut through other rails. Diamonds are simply where one track crosses another at grade. The inner rails are just simply called guard rails and correct on keeping a derailed car close to being in the gauge. Considering the location at the wye those boxes are probably part of the signal system and those platforms were a place for someone to step into the clear if walking the bridge and a train was approaching. The second track was probably in use til near the end when the mill was in full bore and could have been actually removed as the rest of the mill was being demolished and work stopped either for the potential environmental issues mentioned or as part of the preservation and thst mid point platform was set up during the scrapping. Also we have a wye on a bridge here in Chicago over I90 just a bit south of Comisky Park.

[@johncarlson3061]

The little metal balls are called Taconite. I grew up in Cols OH next to the C&O railroad which hauled millions of rail cars full of them down from Toledo where they were off loaded by ships like Edmond Fitzgerald. Coal went north,taconite went south. Hopefully they do a good job preserving this historic bridge.

[@MoreliaAustralia]

Wonderful history there. Your commentary is great. It will be good when this old bridge is restored for pedestrians and cyclists.

[@NortheastAndRetired]

I currently live near Tamaqua PA in NE PA but grew up in the Eastern Suburbs of Pittsburgh near Churchill and Monroeville PA not far from where the Carrie Furnace property where you are now. My father was a foreman at Carrie Furnace his whole adult life. When I was a teenager he'd let me take him to work so I could use his car until it was time to pick him up again. Mother wasn't a fan of me using her car. Lol So many good people worked here and it is really nice going down memory lane. Thank You!!!

[@musclecarmitch908]

Awesome bridge! And awesome news of it's fate! So happy to see such a beautiful bridge and history saved! Awesome video and footage JP! Thanks for bringing us along and sharing it with us!👍💙

[@JPVideos81]

Thanks so much!

[@gregdiamond6023]

That is a really cool bridge. I am glad it’s going to be saved for the public to enjoy. I hate seeing history destroyed. They could’ve torn it down. Thanks for having us.

[@mimig5357]

I love watching your videos and learning about Pennsylvania history! It is so interesting!! Thank you for taking me along.

[@tj79jrfan]

Been watching your videos for a while. This is the first time you've been close to my backyard that bridges is About 10 minutes from me and a little thing that you didn't mention on here. That is unique about that being a hot metal bridge. If you look at it from the side like from the river, it is actually bowed up in the middle and that is to allow the train cars if they somehow separate to roll off either end of the bridge And the side you're talking about. Yes, there are fore keeping the hot metal Inn. It is actually molten metal in those cars that come through there and if molten steel were to come in contact with the river it would actually explode into steam And as far as the open field at the end of the bridge that was where Carrie furnace 1 and 2 used to set What stands today is only furnace. 3 and 4 as far as I know. It only supplied Homestead works with molten steel that all came across that bridge

[@JPVideos81]

That's really neat info about the arch. This bridge is just full of interesting things.

[@Kevin-ly6yw]

The Carrie furnace got metal bridge is an amazing train bridge. The devices that you showed were called frogs and were used at switches to guide the wheels on the tracks to the desired direction the switch was positioned to change rails. The diamonds are square shaped and for rails of opposite directions.

[@Spencer02]

I agree, JP, that is a very big steel bridge. Impressive to look at, i really like the Unique.way. The rails were attached to the steel plates. Very interesting. It looks like that bridge was built in 1910, but that's just my guessing. I love the way the bridge looks. I like the top view of the bridge, know it makes sense what you were talking about, i see two sets of tracks going into the bridge, it really seems like, there was two sets of tracks all throughout the bridge.

[@barbara-pigeonbray4579]

Gorgeous ..well made structure over 100 yrs. old...So glad it hasn't been blown up and dismantled . . Love the idea of restoring the bohemoth for today's public to enjoy.. Thank you so much for searching out this treasure and sharing it with us.. 👍💙Enjoyed it all .

[@JPVideos81]

So glad it's being saved and that I can share it before changes take place.

[@nancymann5351]

I grew up in Swissvale, about 10 minutes or so from there. My father,uncle,and brother in law worked at USS steel mill in Homestead, which is now a water park. My ex husband worked for the Union Railroad for 30 some years. I distantly remember the mills there. It sure looks different. And the funny thing, where the Homestead mill was used to be a town where my parents grew up. They tore down the town to build the steel mill,then tore down the mill and built the water park and shops. Wow.

[@sonplusone7059]

This was a fabulous video and the Ariel footage was outstanding. So much history and fascinating to see. Thanks JP for showing us this. You out did yourself. 🤗💙

[@JPVideos81]

I appreciate the kind words 💙😊

[@dianaroth9073]

Great to see you in Pittsburgh. You did a great job. Yes, the new development across the way from the bridge is new development for movie production.

[@JPVideos81]

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[@john-aaronbaumann7464]

i went to Pittsburgh a lot as a kid and later as a young adult, its interesting to see how the area has changed over the decades.

[@anthonymiller8979]

Loved watching the coal barges going down the Monongahela. My grandparents lived a half block from the river in Brownsville Pa. Spent lots of time walking the tracks on both sides of the river. We had relatives who worked on the push boats.

[@robertmanley7556]

I was there in Oct of 2018 to see Carrie Furnace took a guided tour it was GREAT !! I got a lot or wonderful pictures the people who gave to tour are keeping the place alive as much as possible . They are part of the steel preservation society if I remember right . The dear head sculpture was really something to see in there also.I just can't believe how they chopped the tracks of in mid air just past the ore yard and took them out all the way up to the Hot Metal Bridge. Then we went to Bethlehem Pennsylvania to see Bethlehem Steel it was amazing .....I just cant believe these Industrial Giants are gone ....makes me sad ....so sad. I have had a passion for the steel industry sense I was a teenager ....I always wanted to work in a mill but they were mostly all gone when I graduated high school...the loss of the mills and other industry's a really hard blow for the working class ...ok off my soap box I go now 😂😂Great video always !! And I loved those pictures also. Please give us a future update as they work on this area I hope they do it justice.👍👍

[@judifoster8]

Being born and raised no more than 3 miles from where this location was, I never realized the enormity of all the structures surrounding me. They were just a fact of life...places dads went to work. So much has been torn down, but it actually makes you more aware of the enormity of it all....miles and miles of steel producing facilities. You were almost at Kennywood! The Mon River flows right past Kennywood., but way down over the hill. I guess the concept of "down over the hill" doesn't surprise you at this point.😄 Everything is up over or down over in that area. To get a good flavor of what life was like when the mills were bustling, you should watch the movie "Out of the Furnace" filmed in Braddock near the Edgar Thompson Works, which you were also very close to. Very realistic, except for the accents...nobody can do a Pittsburgh accent. You have to be born into it😄 and it's a hard one to shake! I would say you would need months to see all the stuff that would interest you...like the extensive trolley museum in Washington County. I believe it is located in Arden, PA. I've been there but it has really grown since then. Thank you. This video was very interesting and very well done. The Mon River is much bluer than when I lived there, for obvious reasons.

[@nancymann5351]

I grew up in Swissvale.

[@judifoster8]

@@nancymann5351 West Mifflin, here!

[@grapevine412]

Whitaker here . When you say a Pittsburgh accent do you mean like Joe Denardo😂

[@judifoster8]

@@grapevine412 Or Myron Cope😄

[@grapevine412]

Yoy 😂

[@KarenMathre]

Loved learning something new.

[@ArcadeFires]

Your videos are always interesting, educational, fun, and relaxing! I like how you often experiment with different film, editing, and commentary techniques... Thanks for all of the hard work you put into this awesome content!

[@donnasilver940]

Wow that is beautiful .Nice water to.

[@davidhibbs6989]

I thought you were going to walk across that cut open in that bridge across those boards. Boy that would have made me nervous 😂. On to the next one JP.

[@jamesalinio5277]

That must have been a very busy bride back in the day, I've read excerpts in books that told of kettles in the air, which reminds me of the picture you showed of the "torpedo" car, I'm glad that old bridge is going to be saved, it's a treasure in itself, the architecture is beautiful and needs to be cleaned up and shown off I was going to make a video of the five span bridge here but the railroad has put up no trespassing signs at either end so that is over with, and the Oakland dam reclamation project is completed so there is one less dam on the Susquehanna River now

[@hughwolfe1176]

I’m certain the cost to dismantle/scrap that much steel would be prohibitive. Better to utilize it as a rail trail… Thank you for taking the time to video this bridge prior to its transformation.

[@CentralPaRailfan]

Thanks for the tour of the bridge! Maybe a return trip after it's converted to a trail? You gotta to do the blast furnace tour, its open May through November. We did the general tour where in 2022, usually guided by a former/current steelworker. Very informative. They mentioned the plans for this bridge back then. They also do after dark tours and an arts tour showing the graffiti & artwork around the grounds.

[@judifoster8]

I bet he doesn't wait that long to visit the area again.

[@JPVideos81]

Already planning my next trip back!

[@judifoster8]

@@JPVideos81 I'm not at all surprised!❤️👍🏼

[@1361057]

Bravo Jay! I loved the areal views from the drone first then the ground tour but the music was also so perfect. A 10 out of 10 on that video. Thank you.

[@blaketatar1239]

I love your videos. I’m a railroad history buff and this is way cool. Those little canon balls that you found are called Taconite. Where ever steel is produced you will find it. In Bethlehem PA, that big structure with the casino name on it was used to load the taconite.

[@JPVideos81]

Thanks for the info!

[@cabamama]

I'm so glad it will be saved. You know I love history and you help me learn so many new things. This bridge is super-awesome! It surely WAS a day for you to be there...the other train and it's eerie sounds gave ghostly features to the abandoned one. The barge was just an added touch! Right time, right place.

[@anthonysaggio6551]

Great video something to watch on a rainy Sunday here in NJ

[@maxstueven1965]

The reason for the tall metal sides and metal plating on the ground, is because they carried hot molten Iron and that kept everything around it from catching fire.

[@dfiler2]

Not just metal sides, also asbestos. You can see asbestos panels along the lower sides of the walls. I crossed it years ago but that was before it was fenced and before the northern ramp was removed.

[@farlo_9355]

I liked all of this adventure. 🚂 🌉

[@tokin0127]

I like the filming a train from a train bridge part . The video flows nicely . Top quality !

[@thedarkside3394]

As someone who loves history and is a train nerd, this was a great video.

[@JPVideos81]

Thanks!

[@judykramer4519]

That was so interesting!

[@alexandria8255]

I enjoyed it all! Great info Jay. God bless....

[@JPVideos81]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@michaelblair5767]

That is a most impressive bridge

[@dtslord]

Fantastic video!!! I really enjoyed the history of the bridge and the views you gave us!!!

[@JPVideos81]

My pleasure Len. Thanks for checking it out.

[@jim81143]

Nice video. When I first saw the picture, I thought it was the wye railroad bridge in Oil City Pa. It was interesting to see this bridge and the blast furnace with everything else having been removed all around them.

[@wfermier]

This is a very interesting video. Thanks for posting it. I noticed something at time mark 23:41 that you missed. The catwalk you show has some very ornamental handrail supports that look like they are part of the original construction. You don't see that sort of thing on railroad bridges in the late 20th century. I wish you could have found some old photos of the bridge back when it was in use. Either way, you are braver than me to adventure out on to the rusty old bridge.

[@CJWilkins-dt6xr]

My favorite part was the awesome aerial footage with the beautiful music. Loved the coal barge moving under the bridge, too!

[@njm-hz8rq]

Cool. Especially the 'Lingo f****d Fizzo here' graffiti

[@joangravel2436]

Thanks that was awesome i enjoyed watching

[@poowg2657]

The little pellets are taconite iron ore concentrate primarily from the arrowhead of Minnesota and Marquette Michigan. It is made from concentrated iron ore with clay as a binder. Frogs are part of a track switch and crossing points are part of the diamond. There was probably a manned interlocking tower in the area, maybe where the foundation inside the wye was. The switches were run off of electric switch machines controlled by the tower. The high sides of the bridge kept molton metal from dropping onto river traffic. That bridge might have been inspected daily. Cool video, thanks much!

[@bonniekaye]

*Love this!* 🙂👍

[@rogerhare7886]

Exploring bridges like this is like a Time Machine. Makes me feel giddy when I explore old stuff-closest thing to going back in time. Any history fan knows this feeling. Thank you.

[@StantonsJourneys]

Fantastic bridge with lots of history, and I'm definitely glad they are repurposing it for future generations. Thanks for sharing JP much appreciated and enjoyed all of it.

[@JPVideos81]

If you get the chance, check it out for yourself.

[@timdaugherty5921]

Second track was removed in 1972

[@SchererProductionServices]

GREAT explore.

[@garymessina1609]

Excellent bridge adventure very glad to see it will used again thanks jay for a great video

[@nancyharrigle6617]

Great footage with interesting history. Hope to see you make a video when this becomes a rail to trail stretch. Thanks again for bringing us along on your journey. Keep that camera rolling. Happy trails.

[@theodoredugranrut8201]

Thank you Jay, very interesting, and glad you got to document it now. Central California watching. 💙

[@JPVideos81]

Me too!

[@paulzimmerman6058]

Awesome camera work Jay, you are getting good flying the drown, and the video of the furnaces was supper cool.

[@margiecooper6045]

Cool bridge JP and very interesting. I also enjoyed seeing the barge. I’ve never lived close to large river. Thank you for sharing this with us. ❤

[@bethhurlbert7221]

Everything love seeing have a great day 😊

[@Alco16-251F]

Incredible! I think it’s great. That history is going to see a second life, and you are correct on that being 140 pounds RE rail.

[@florianstohr1235]

Schönes Video, Intressant gemacht mit einer angenehm ruhigen Kameraführung. Ich spreche kaum Englisch, doch die Bilder sind so gut, dass das garnicht so wild ist :) Vielleicht wäre es noch intressant, ein paar Links oder Bilder / Videoaufnahmen aus der früheren, aktiven Zeit dieses Ortes mit einzubinden oder darauf zu verweisen, wo man so etwas finden kann :) Weiterhin viel Erfolg und gute Erkundungen anderer verlassener Orte :) Viele Grüße, Florian

[@snikies22]

Wicked cool explore Jay! I loved the aerial shots alongside the interesting history you dug up. Keep up the good work!

[@mkendallpk4321]

Another very nice video. Thank you JP for showing us this gem of a water crossing. I am glad that it will be preserved and used as a rail trail in the near future.

[@jenniferbutcher8393]

Loved it! All parts were my favorite lol!!

[@JPVideos81]

😊💙

[@themcgeefamily7514]

❤ 💙 So cool. We truly enjoyed every step. Thanks for allowing us to come along with you.

[@dianacanales2526]

This is an engineering marvel and an important part of history. Good to know the work that will be going into restoring and preserving it. Loved the aerial shots! Fascinating exploration! Thanks for bringing us along!!

[@palyba1]

Awesome as usual! No idea that was there. Looks like it will be fantastic when it's completed! Thank you for sharing this amazing bridge! 😁💙

[@janetfeathers4128]

This is going to be one cool foot and bike trail. Kinda reminds me of the Highline of NYC. Always so good when history is preserved. Thank u 😊

[@JPVideos81]

Walking the Highline in NYC is on my list. Thanks for stopping by.

[@adamtereska8734]

The entire exploration was fantastic. Great video

[@JPVideos81]

Thanks Adam

[@joeyauvinen6064]

Really cinematic and super interesting.

[@TheShowgirl25]

Great drone footage!

[@richardsharp6875]

That makes me homesick as I grew up in that area in the 50s and those bridges were my playgrounds. The rivers were always covered with coal barges and train loaded with coal were constant. But the environment paid dearly for those times. Thank you for the memories..

[@kevinsalsbury2118]

What a fantastic video sir! I had a huge amount of family living in the Belle Vernon area and we would have family reunions in the 80s. I remember always being fascinated by the industry around and bridges crossing the Monongahela River. Thank you for sharing this.

[@josephlalock8378]

cool bridge! i could definately see myself having keg parties at the wye section in the 80s

[@user-ci9ri4fl5pBuckeyeChessie]

The steel pellets are known as ore which were hailed in ore jennies. Bottle cars transported hot molten steel. Awesome video as always :)

[@user-jz2vc2iz4t]

I just love this bridge. I've been on it twice and hope to get on it once more before the reconstrution begins. It exudes its history, you can feel it. This video is great. Loved all the details you pointed out.

[@JPVideos81]

Thanks!

[@katchvideos910]

This is the coolest rail bridge I have ever seen! Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

[@JPVideos81]

It's pretty awesome

[@barbaraharshman9460]

Jay i always like when you come to the burgh!!! Always something interesting to see!

[@SharonJones-ql8oy]

Very Interesting!

[@gigicostlow4414]

Awesome bridge explore. So glad they are saving it and putting it to good use. Be cool for you and maybe some of the others to do a bike explore of it when it opens and maybe visit the furnace too when it's open. Looks like a fantastic area for a long explore video. Thanks for taking us along.

[@markwritt8541]

I heard they were going to make this a pedestrian bridge. Guess I need to visit it pretty soon.

[@davidotto7666]

Hey bud I just want to say thank you for the wonderful videos man we❤ hey bud I just want to say thank you for the wonderful videos man we do

[@gaylebrodt676]

What an incredible exploration with so much fascinating and interesting history to learn! Beautiful aerial footage! I was glad we couldn't see through to the bottom too because I got the same feeling you did the first time you put the camera through the first opening. lol Although it was a gorgeous view! That was so cool to see the train on the other bridge and also the barge. To me, it seems like it was once a double line bridge too. It's really wonderful that it will be restored to be enjoyed for a very long time and would be so fun to see it once the restoration is finished. Great video JP, thank you! 💙😊

[@JPVideos81]

I couldn't peek over the side for more than a few seconds haha. I was relieved that I was able to cross this bridge with no real issues.

[@romainphillis2526]

I love that place! We attended the Rivers of Steel festival for my birthday a few years ago,, awesome place. Ask for a tour!! They plan on opening up an artist co-op in the building closest to the bridge. You have to get a tour so you can check out the railcars that ran on that bridge! At the height of operation the blast furnace had over 10 miles of rail lines ! Have fun!!!

[@JPVideos81]

Awesome history

[@patrickspeer2990]

The small pellets are iron ore and are called taconite. Rail is measured in 3 foot sections by weight, so 140 pound rail sounds about right. I think the Bessemer & Lake Erie RR, a RR that used to run into north Pittsburgh and connected to the Union RR, was the first railroad in the US to use 150 pound rail. The B&LE was an iron ore RR that carried iron ore from Conneaught, Ohio on Lake Erie south to Pittsburgh. The rail probably was produced right there in Pittsburgh by Carnegie, maybe at the Edgar Thompson mill or at the Homestead that was on the other side of the Monongahela from Rankin. I always thought there should have been large museum of steel and iron about Pittsburgh, like what has been done in Bethlehem. Pittsburgh produced more steel during WWII than Germany and Japan combined, it produced more iron during the Civil War than the entire Confederacy of states combined. Nice vid

[@kevinwelsh8060]

Those iron ore pellets make great sling shot ammo. My dad worked for Conrail and later Norfolk Southern and would bring me pellets when I was a kid and I would wear out bands almost daily.

[@JPVideos81]

I bet they worked well with slingshots.

[@user-jg3gn6bs4z]

ive been binging your videos lately and i just wanna say theyre so fun to watch, my gf and i love your energy

[@JPVideos81]

Appreciate that, thanks

[@MoeLarrycurly1]

👍👍🎄🎄 neetoo... U do great

[@Chaotic-Demise77]

Interesting video and Railroad. Never seen a split like that before. 💙

[@JPVideos81]

First for me seeing that on/off a bridge.

[@marygreen5461]

we use to take a small bucket & collect the railroad marbles and shoot at targets with a sling shot

[@JPVideos81]

Perfect ammo

[@Orxenhorf]

7:01 - The tie plates split from 2 to 4 lines just the other side of the hole. It was a switch location with the mechanical bits to operate it in the gaps below and out on the platform, along with room for a brakeman to stand out of the way when using it.

[@ICUNA22]

Looks like that rail which is still in place at 5:35, is a guard rail, not the running rail. The actual running rail was removed, probably because it was still useful elsewhere. The running rail would only have had value as scrap, because it was probably worn out, hence its use as a guard rail. If you look at a close-up at 4:53, on the bottom, right leg of the bridge, where the track is still in place, there is a fifth rail, a guard rail, on the inside of the curve. The left side most likely had a similar set-up, except that on the right, the two tracks seem to be running as a gantlet, and on the left the two are joined in a turnout.

[@FortWorthMobileMechanic]

Look at the part we're you zoomed in on the the name in the video I can see it said USS. US steel that was there markings the p symbol before that means Pittsburgh works

[@susanorr7535]

Great adventure!

[@caramel5352]

Love it thank you ❤

[@terryciavola5962]

Love this video Jason! Great history, so interesting! Awesome footage and got to see the Barge. Happy to know they will be reconstructing! PA is a fascinating,historic state. Love it! 👍🥰❤️

[@JPVideos81]

Thanks Terry!

[@jacobpoucher]

shots of the furnace were awesome. i hope you post a video about the furnace. did you amtrak there? i hope you go on vacation soon seems like you havent been anywhere in forever.