Editing West Brownsville, Pennsylvania (section)

==Transportation and railroad ==
[[File:Monongahela Railway (route map).png|thumb|550px|left|This map of the [[Monongahela Railroad]] Shortline shows the lower "Brownsville Junction" crossing bridge in between Brownsville and West Brownsville. The rail bridge is downriver from the former ferry ramps between the towns and both the old and new [[U.S. Route 40]] bridges. Coke ovens lined the east bank trackage and the bridge off map to the north allowed entire trains to pull through and turn around for the run back to Fayette and [[Greene County, Pennsylvania]]n and [[West Virginia]]n mines, keeping throughput up, and reducing the time dumping tracks were blocked by empty train consists of hopper cars.]]

[[File:WBvillestreetrunning.jpg|thumb|[[Street running]] through West Brownsville.]]

Sundered by the county boundaries running down the center of the river, West Brownsville economically was integrated with cross-river Brownsville by a ferry dating back into the early 1800s when Brownsville became a [[riverboat]] building and [[outfitter|outfitting center]]. With construction of boats on nearby large tributaries, the shallow banks of West Brownsville were a favorite location to tie up and outfit a new built [[water craft]] to outfit it and load cargoes. The modern-day Main Street is notable for featuring [[on-street running]] by freight trains down the center of the street. Considered one railroad crossing, it is one of the longest crossings in the United States. Along with [[right bank]] [[Brownsville, PA|Brownsville]] on the opposite shore, West Brownsville and Brownsville hosted extensive [[rail yard]]s jammed into the tight confines along both banks of the [[Monongahela River]]. One special feature at either end of the two railyards was they each shared a bridge joining two river crossing [[wye (railroad)|wyes]] that tied together to contain a rare true-life reversing loop, normally a feature only found in [[model railroad]]ing layouts. The yards serviced the extensive rail [[hopper car]] deliveries feeding the [[Coke (fuel)|coking ovens]] up river along the southside of Brownsville, and were integral parts of the famous Pittsburgh Steel Industries. The [[Monongahela Railroad]] represented the Lake Erie, the PRR, and the B&O, and [[Norfolk and Western]] both utilized the trackage in the towns, which today is operated by the N&W's successor, [[Norfolk Southern]] with the Monongahela vanishing into the [[Conrail]] debacle.