The Pinkerton's Surrender Bridge (officially known as the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Bridge at Munhall) is a

truss bridge A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units. The connected elements, typically straight, may be stressed from tension, compression, or ...

that carries

CSX Transportation CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad company operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. Operating about 21,000 route miles () of track, it is the lead ...

Pittsburgh Subdivision The Pittsburgh Subdivision is an American railroad line that is owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Notable features The line runs from McKeesport (PLY 15.1) northwest through Pittsburgh to West Pitts ...

across the

Monongahela River The Monongahela River ( , ), sometimes referred to locally as the Mon (), is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 river on the Allegheny Plateau in nor ...

between

Munhall, Pennsylvania Munhall is a borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, on the west bank of the Monongahela River. The population was 10,774 at the 2020 census. It is a residential suburb of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. Located south of ...

and

Rankin, Pennsylvania Rankin is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, south of Pittsburgh on the Monongahela River. The borough was named after Thomas Rankin, a local landowner. Early in the 20th century, Rankin specializ ...

, United States. The structure's nickname references the 1892 Homestead strike, in which Pinkerton forces surrendered to striking union steelworkers. It is also known as the Pemickey Bridge, for the Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Youghiogheny Railroad (P. McK. & Y., pronounced "Pemickey") which used to run over the bridge.

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Railroad bridges in Pennsylvania Bridges over the Monongahela River CSX Transportation bridges Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Bridges in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area Truss bridges in the United States Steel bridges in the United States Bridges completed in 1883 1883 establishments in Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-bridge-struct-stub

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