1877 Strike looking East from 25th Street.


Image of 1877 Strike looking East from 25th Street.
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The wildcat railroad strike of 1877 quickly spred across the nation. Shutting down and crippling dozens of railroads, this first national strike in American history also claimed hundreds of lives. This photo shows the devastated ruins of the Pennsylvania Railroad's 28th Street roundhouse in Pittsburgh, soon after it was burned to the ground by strikers that July.