tinacat933 t1_jefax6l wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:21 PM

Reply to comment by Aggravating_Foot_528 in Update On Carrie Furnace Hot Metal Bridge. by Cooch98

Why?

leadfoot9 t1_jefexwj wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:47 PM

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.

Aggravating_Foot_528 t1_jeferyq wrote on March 31, 2023 at 4:46 PM

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

tinacat933 t1_jeflr6j wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:32 PM

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

Aggravating_Foot_528 t1_jefp2tk wrote on March 31, 2023 at 5:53 PM

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.