West Brownsville is a former important transportation nexus and a present-day borough in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States and part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.

[5] Culturally, by postal route, and socially, the community is connected to cross-river sister-city Brownsville.

The two towns were long joined by the Amerindian trail known as Nemacolin's Path that became a wagon road after the American Revolution.

Historically, at a bit upstream of the location of the Brownsville-West Brownsville Bridge was the Amerindian crossing ford and wagon road of early westward migrants.

A few hundred yards west from the shoreline, PA Route 88 enters from along the riverside bluff and the south as Lowhill Road and hugs the foot of the steep Pennsylvania hillsides flanking tongue-shaped flat terrain of the streets and housing through most of the length of W. Brownsville before twisting left uphill.

The other ascent would allow PA Route 88 to climb out of the valley where the road cut across several loops of the Monongahela to California.

The yards serviced the extensive rail hopper car deliveries feeding the coking ovens up river along the southside of Brownsville, and were integral parts of the famous Pittsburgh Steel Industries.