Below is the same view from July of 2016.

This is a wonderful photo. If you look closely there's a sign for Kaufmann's - they're the family that commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build Fallingwater about an hour and 15 mins. from Pittsburgh. I also love the road that goes up the hill in the back!

What's really interesting to me is the river access, which is now a parking lot that floods periodically, and a highway. It's a funny thing, there's been a movement to connect the city's people to the water, a pretty successful movement, in my opinion - what goes around comes around again, altered for the early 21st century.

The two bridges in the background cross the Allegheny at Herrs Island. One was called the Herrs Island Bridge and was located at 30th street (not 31st which was erected in 1927). The other was a railroad bridge at 33rd street.

We've just purchased a new coal barge and we need a new snappy name for the company.

I think that's a railroad bridge that is still standing around 12th street. I cruised near it on the gateway clipper over the summer.

This is close to the same view as the photo-it is taken from mount washington between the two remaining inclines.

For a brief period, the 'Keystone State' was the 'S.S.Brown' as well. Thanks, The Big Dog. Sad ending, but I understood that fire was a major hazard with these boats.

Love the view of the old Hill/Strip incline. It operated for a 70-year stretch before it was torn down in 1953, and hauled both coal and people, launching from a resort and casino on the Hill side and docking at 17th Street and Penn Avenue in the Strip.

In the late 1800s, Pittsburgh had more than a dozen inclines; only two remain. There is talk about rebuilding this one!

Great angle. Picture must've been taken near where PJ McArdle meets Grandview Avenue. Incredible that the Penn Incline (running behind the Pennsylvania Station) looks as close as it does, given that it was near 17th Street. Any idea which bridge that is in the upper left hand corner?

The Keystone State, built in 1890, traveled between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. In 1913 she was converted into the an excursion boat and renamed Majestic. She wrecked in June 1914 above St Louis and later burned to the waterline. Pictures of her end can be found here.