TRANSPORTATION: 

From the late eighteenth century, private boats, rafts, and barges ran from above Brownsville to Pittsburgh and beyond. By the mid nineteenth century there was regular commercial service to just about all points on the Monongahela. In 1862 a boat called the Reece was making scheduled trips from Elizabeth to Pittsburgh, stopping in Dravosburg. The fare to Pittsburgh was one dollar.

Some of the early ferry boats to McKeesport were the J.C. Gumbert, the H.B. Sinclair and the Tillie.

On April 22, 1873, the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railroad opened service from Homestead to Dravosburg. They had previously completed the line from Pittsburgh to Homestead. Later in 1873 the line was extended to Monongahela City, and the next year to Brownsville. The PV&C was a branch of the great Pennsylvania Railroad system, and helped to connect Dravosburg to the nation.

At this time, what we now know as the tenth ward of McKeesport was the Borough of Reynoldton, but as close as it was to Dravosburg, the only way to get there or to McKeesport was by ferry boat. In 1884 the McKeesport -Reynoldton bridge was completed, connecting Third Avenue in McKeesport with Reynoldton; and in 1891 a company headed by S.S. Crump and John M. Risher built the Dravosburg bridge from the foot of McClure Street to Reynoldton at a cost of $110,000 .

In 1892, the McKeesport and Reynoldton Passenger Railway Company electrified its horsecars and Dravosburgers could now travel from the foot of McClure Street to McKeesport on these modern cars.

In 1895, the company that later became Pittsburgh Railways extended its line from Hays to Dravosburg, terminating about where the borough building is today. Passengers could now take the streetcar from McKeesport and points beyond to the foot of McClure Street in Dravosburg, walk up the public steps to Maple Avenue, and board a car for Pittsburgh. This inconvenience was soon remedied by the building of the viaduct connecting the two lines in 1897. An amusing coincidence is that the wood used in building the viaduct was cut in a Lincoln Place sawmill owned by a Mr. Trestle.

 Another street railway served Dravosburg from Duquesne. One source says it opened on September 16, 1910, and another says that it operated from 1908- 1928. In either case, it never enjoyed the success that Pittsburgh Railways did, and one source says that its lone car was destroyed by a collision with a PRR freight train. Transportation to Duquesne was taken over by Duquesne Motor Coach bus company in 1927.