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This building at the corner of Beaver Avenue and Seymour Street in the Chateau District is one of several 19th-century red brick structures that were part of the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works, an Andrew Carnegie company that manufactured almost 3,000 steam locomotive engines from 1867 to 1919.

Readers question demolition of Locomotive Works

My Jan. 24 story about the ongoing demolition of Andrew Carnegie's former Pittsburgh Locomotive Works buildings drew nearly two dozen e-mails and phone calls from readers troubled by it. (Yesterday)

Locomotive Works

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The newly refurbished Thomas Espy Post No. 153 at the Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie.

Restored Espy Post in Carnegie a treasure trove of history

Union Army Capt. Thomas Espy has long lain in an unmarked grave. But a photograph of his determined face still casts a forceful presence in the Carnegie veterans post that bears his name. (02/08/2010)

	Espy Post
	Espy's drum
	Civil War vets

1879 Charter for the Captain Thomas Espy Post

The Captain Thomas Espy Post's charter was granted in December 1879. The document lists 21 members. Mansfield became Carnegie after the turn of the century. (02/08/2010)

Captain Thomas Espy portrait

Thomas Espy, a prominent resident of Upper St. Clair Township, was 50 when he enlisted in the army on July 4, 1861. He was appointed captain and given command of Company H, 62nd Pennsylvania Volunteers. (02/08/2010)

Captain Thomas Espy Post, Memorial Day 1905

On Memorial Day, 1905, veterans from the Captain Thomas Espy Post gathered at the Carnegie Free Library and Music Hall in Carnegie for a group portrait. (02/08/2010)

Sunday, February 7, 2010