Junction Hollow is a small wooded valley bordering the west flanks of

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and the campus of

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and the southern edge of the

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's campus in

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. The valley runs south to north approximately . It begins where Four Mile Run empties into the

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and runs through the neighborhood of

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north into

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along Schenley Park, Carnegie Mellon, and the

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, and ends at Neville Street behind Central Catholic High School. It is spanned by four major bridges; from north to south they are the Forbes Avenue Bridge,

Schenley Bridge The Schenley Bridge is a steel three-hinged deck arch bridge spanning Junction Hollow in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It carries Schenley Drive between Oakland on the west and the main part of Schenley Park on the east, connecting Schenley Plaza, ...

Charles Anderson Memorial Bridge The Charles Anderson Memorial Bridge is a steel Truss bridge, deck truss bridge located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The bridge carries the four-lane roadway of Boulevard of the Allies across a ravine known as Junction Hollow, conn ...

, and Frazier Street Bridge. Junction Hollow is often confused for

Panther Hollow Panther Hollow is a small, somewhat isolated neighborhood at the bottom of Joncaire Street in Junction Hollow that runs along Boundary Street and is located in the Central Oakland section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The neighborhood was settled ...

, which at Panther Hollow Lake veers off from it to the northeast into the park.

History

Junction Hollow is named for the Pittsburgh Junction Railroad, which first laid tracks there in the 1880s, and the idea of a Junction Hollow spur line was to divert rail traffic north through Schenley Tunnel (beneath Neville Street) to a rail yard along the

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, thus avoiding rail congestion in Downtown. Prior to the railroad the area was known as the Four Mile Run Valley, for its stream that was named on account of its distance from The Point. Today the stream is piped underground to the river. In the 1950s and 1960s planners created a grand proposal to fill the hollow with a research complex extending from the

and

to the river, but it was never realized.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JSYcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wlYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6704%2C3089945 Since the 1990s, the Eliza Furnace Trail extends into the hollow, where it is called Junction Hollow Trail.

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History

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