Taken from Girard's Liberty Street Bridge looking north, this view is of is one of those "funnels" in which multiple railroads run side by side to gain access to a major industrial area (in this case, Youngstown, Ohio). On the far left is the Pennsylvania Railroad's Erie & Ashtabula Branch (by now Penn Central). In the center is the Baltimore & Ohio's Lake Subdivision, which until the 1905 construction of the Girard-Ravenna cutoff was part of the railroad's Pittsburgh & Western mainline. Ahead, at De Forest Junction, the B&O's Lake Subdivision heads north to Lake Erie and the Newton Falls Subdivision continues east to rejoin the B&O mainline. On the right is the Erie's Cleveland & Mahoning line serving the steel mills in Warren, Niles and Youngstown, Ohio and Sharon, Pennsylvania. The B&O line is descending as it approaches the camera and will shortly tunnel under the Pennsylvania's line to connect with the B&O's main line at Ohio Junction.
