The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad developed primarily because of Pittsburgh's need to access Lake Superior ores. During the 1800s, all of the major railroads traveled east to west, and connected ...

The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1897, carried iron ore and coal from Conneaut, Ohio, to East Pittsburgh. It fed Carnegie’s Mon Valley steel mills with raw materials.

It was built in 1930 and is classified as poor condition. The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad is a National Register of Historical Properties-eligible historic district and the U.S. 6N underpass is ...

Historian Carrie Sowden provides an outline for her lecture on the disappearance of the Marquette & Bessemer No. 2, a 338-foot steel vessel, which set sail for a five-hour steam across Lake Erie ...

Police in Allegheny County said the 17-year-old was walking on Bessemer Lake Erie Railroad tracks in Plum near the Oakmont Country Club pedestrian bridges. Superintendent James Morton said the ...

The Allegheny County coroner confirmed Ciara Hasselman, 17, of Oakmont, was struck and killed by the train on the Bessemer Lake Erie Railroad near the Oakmont Country Club, in Plum Borough.