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| Photo by Bob Chesarek via BridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) |
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Shane Welling posted
I have returned again with yet another Wheeling and Lake Erie bridge. This one is located just outside Finleyville, PA crossing above the Finleyville park and ride, and crossing under route 43. Taken by me on July 4th, 2021.
[His previous W&LE bridge was over the Monongahela.]
Dan Dlugos: There is a bunch of good stuff about the P&WV Hi Line (Now W&LE) here http://www.thepwvhiline.com/ |
This trestle is an example of the design where the short girders across the top of the tower are of the same depth as the longer girders between the towers.
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Jack D. Kuiphoff posted
Wheeling and Lake Erie, W&LE GP35 103 is on the rear of a nine car coke train out of the coke-works on the Monongahela River at Monessen. The train is on the ex-P&WV Railways 200' tall Mingo Creek trestle, under the taller 250' PA-43 highway bridge built by the PATP Commission at Finleyville, Pennsylvania. February 8, 2004. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo |
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Mike Cirner commented on Jack's post
I got this photo there back in April 2020. |
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Ziggystrainsandsuch posted
Empty coke train on WE618 on the “East End”
Jimbo Lovasz: The highway is Route 43 and the bridge is named after Joe Montana the famous football player from the San Francisco 49ers. He played high school football and grew up in the area. Also it’s something that you need to see in person, the Joe Montana Bridge is 250 feet [76m] high! |
In the early '70's I rode a dirt bike across that trestle a few times. If you shut the bike off before you got on it, you could feel an approaching train's vibrations and get a 'pretty good idea' you had at least a few minutes to get across. That. and the valley carried a locomotive's sound pretty far. At least that was the logic we used to do such stupid things back then.
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