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Eubadom t1_jeeyhxa wrote

Reply to comment by FuzzPunkMutt in Update On Carrie Furnace Hot Metal Bridge. by Cooch98

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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