Edgar

Some sites that give more background and details to the information presented in the Edgar Thomson Plant article in the March/April 2026 issue with photographs by Jeffrey Bowser.

Jeffrey Bowser’s photography site:
https://www.fortfrickphotography.com

U.S. Steel’s corporate site / Mon Valley Works
https://www.ussteel.com
https://monvalley.uss.com/mon-valley-works

Allegheny Front’s article (July 2025) with environmental groups seeking cleaner operations by Nippon Steel, US Steel’s new owner
https://www.alleghenyfront.org/nippon-us-steel-pittsburgh-plants-air-pollution/

Engineering.com’s history of US Steel
https://www.engineering.com/the-long-strange-history-of-u-s-steel/

Woodruff Sleeping Cars information on the Mid-Continent Railway Museum site
https://www.midcontinent.org/rollingstock/builders/woodruff-central_transportation.htm

HistoricPittsburgh guide to the records of the Carnegie Steel Company
https://historicpittsburgh.org/islandora/object/pitt%3AUS-QQS-MSS315/viewer

Explore History’s page on the Carnegie marker in Pittsburgh at the library on Forbes Ave.
https://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php%3FmarkerId=1-A-1AB.html

Explore History’s document about Captain “Bill” Jones and his rise to prominence at Edgar Thomson after being overlooked at Johnstown.
https://explorepahistory.com/odocument.php%3FdocId=1-4-119.html

Article in Pittsburgh Quarterly about Andrew Carnegie’s philanthropy throughout his life.
https://pittsburghquarterly.com/articles/andrew-carnegie-black-white/

The last slab to be cast at the Edgar Thomson Works prior to the new operation.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=edgar+thomson+works+last+slab+rolled+1992

Article about the cancelled $1 Billion upgrade to Pittsburgh plants of US Steel in 2021.
https://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/2021/04/30/us-steel-cancels-1b-upgrade-to-pittsburgh-plants/

Braddock’s battlefield near the steel works
https://www.braddocksbattlefield.org/events.html

Thomas Scott, the PRR executive who showed a special interest in Carnegie’s development as an industrialist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Scott

Andrew Carnegie on the PBS American Experience
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/eads-andrew-carnegie-1835-1919/

Wikipedia’s Andrew Carnegie / US Steel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Steel

National Iron and Steel Heritage Museum’s Edgar Thomson entry
https://steelmuseum.org/pais300_exhibit_2017/edgar_thomson_works.cfm

Description of equipment at Edgar Thomson listed on the Goldberg, Persky, White PC Attorneys at Law site.
https://gpwlaw.com/edgar-thomson-steel-works-job-site/

YOUTUBE: Nighttime torpedo cars in operation by djstrains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3l-5iVyveY&t=81s