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Brilliant Branch

Brilliant Branch
Highland Drive
Lincoln Avenue

The Brilliant Branch, also known as the Brilliant Cutoff, was a railway line in Pittsburgh and Aspinwall, Pennsylvania. It was opened by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1904 and abandoned in 2024. It connected the Pittsburgh Line to the Conemaugh Line and to Allegheny Valley Railroad's Allegheny Subdivision. There are plans to convert it into a rail trail.