PA-43: (no Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges: same Satellite)
W&LE = the 1990 version of the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway
P&WV = Pittsburgh & Western Virginia Railway This was a link in George Gould's attempt to build a truly transcontinental railroad. And it is the railroad that helped the Wabash RR get into Pittsburgh. It was part of the Alphabet Route that consisted of the Nickle Plate to the west and Western Maryland to the east.
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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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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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