By Austin Pistulka
Feb 17, 2021
In his first press conference back at it, Dan Mullen got grilled by Gators Insider Edgar Thompson. We brought Edgar on to talk about that first press conference and more.
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In a sense, Bristol lucked out. That’s what crossed my mind as I followed a winding trail between Otter Creek’s tidal basin and the municipal parking lot. The basin once was the terminus of the Delaware Canal when it opened in 1832 and made Bristol a busy coal shipping port.
As I walked past several historical markers, I was mindful of Albright Zimmerman’s detailed history of the canal. He pays close attention to a 19th century civil engineer who gave Atlanta its name and designed Pennsylvania’s famous Horseshoe Curve rail line.
J. Edgar Thomson also mapped out a plan to extend the canal another 19 miles to Philadelphia’s seaport. It would have created a faster means of getting coal from upstate Pennsylvania to market. Had that occurred, Bristol’s coal-driven prosperity as an export terminal at Otter Creek no doubt would have been stunted. It nearly happened.
Courtesy of U.S. Steel Corp.
A train crosses the Port Perry Bridge over the Monongahela River at North Versailles.
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The state earmarked about $1.8 million to improve U.S. Steel Corp.’s Union Railroad infrastructure in the Braddock area and for a rail yard project along the Monongahela River in Westmoreland County.
PennDOT granted U.S. Steel Corp. $1.7 million for two projects on its Union Railroad, which serves three of the steelmaker’s plants the Clairton coke plant, Edgar Thomson in Braddock and the Irvin finishing plant in West Mifflin as well as other manufacturing plants in the Mon Valley.
By Austin Pistulka
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We have questions about the Florida Gators! We know that Edgar Thompson has the answers. So where is Dan Mullen going? Apparently nowhere, unless..Find out about the unless in the podcast below.