When considering Mon Valley history, Andrew Carnegie and steel mills come to mind, but so does the mystery of the B-25 “Ghost Bomber.”

The legend and facts surrounding the military plane that went missing on Jan. 31, 1956, are familiar to most Pittsburghers by now. The B-25 bomber made a miraculous emergency landing in the Monongahela River, quickly sank and was never recovered after many fruitless searches. Two crewmen died.

The mystery has been immortalized in a new mural in the Linden Tunnel in Duquesne, part of the Steel Valley Trail’s 10-mile stretch from McKeesport to Pittsburgh’s Hays neighborhood, a small section of the much longer Great Allegheny Passage trail.

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The nonprofit Steel Valley Trail Council sought creation of a mural for a nondescript concrete trail tunne

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