The Little Saw Mill Run Railroad was a coal railroad in

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Allegheny County () is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It is located in Southwestern Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,250,578, making it the state's second-most populous county, following Philadelphia Co ...

. It was incorporated July 23, 1850, and opened in April 1853. Originally, it was owned by the

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, and ran from Temperanceville, Pennsylvania on the

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to Banksville, Pennsylvania, running parallel to

Saw Mill Run Saw Mill Run is a tributary of the Ohio River in Pennsylvania. It is an urban stream, and lies entirely within Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The stream enters the Ohio just downstream from the Forks of the Ohio in Pittsburgh, at a place that ...

and Little Saw Mill Run. In an agreement with the

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Pittsburgh Southern Railroad, it ran dual gauge tracks. It became part of the railroad empire of

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, merging with the West Side Belt Railroad in 1897. The superintendent of the Marine Railway at Sawmill Run for 13 years was Captain Edward Boland.

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