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At the height of the 1936 flood, there was no train service into or out of Pittsburgh because
the railroad tracks that ran along the city's three rivers—the Allegheny, Monongahela, and
Ohio—were blocked or washed away by the floodwaters. This freight-yard photograph
shows long strings of railroad boxcars almost completely submerged by the floodwaters.
Railroad crews would be busy for weeks repairing the damage from the record-setting
flood.
