FreightWaves Classics: George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge turns 89 today!

The George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge. (Photo: phlf.org)

On this date in 1932, the George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge officially opened in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A newspaper account at the time characterized the bridge as “the most recent link in Pennsylvania’s maze of beautiful highways.”

Part of the understructure of the George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge. (Photo: structurae.net)Part of the understructure of the George Westinghouse Memorial Bridge.
(Photo: structurae.net)

Construction of the bridge began in 1929. The bridge was named for engineer and electrical industry pioneer George Westinghouse. His Westinghouse Electric...

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