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| Street View, it is too bad the driver wasn't going in the other direction so that it was in the closer lane. |
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| Rust Belt Railroading posted |
"1881 trusses replaced in 1968 for B&O mainline relocation" [BridgeHunter-railroad]
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| P&LE Photo via HistoricPittsburgh, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) |
This is an example "of an exceedingly rare variety of arch bridge, that of a crescent arch. The design of a crescent arch is that of an arch which begins as a solid rib, which splits apart and becomes a braced rib in the middle of the span." [HistoricBridges-vehicle]
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| Lee Paxton Photo via BridgeHunter-vehicle, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) |
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This is another example in Pennsylvania of where the space is so narrow between the river and the hills that they built the turnout for a branch on the bridge.
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| Jeffrey McDonough posted Not my photo .. bridge is at the intersection of the mon river and the yough river near McKeesport pa , I think it’s a pretty cool structure. Chuck Considine |
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| On The Road in Pennsylvania added The B & O (Baltimore & Ohio) and the P & LE (Pittsburgh & Lake Erie) Railroad Bridge 🌉, that crosses the Youghiogheny River. This snapshot 📷 🌎 🇺🇸 was taken from the B & O side of the river, at Broadford, PA in Fayette County, on May 22nd, 2002. Photograph courtesy of Jack D. Kuiphoff. On The Road in Pennsylvania I hope you Enjoy! 🙂 😉 🙂 Jeffrey Linton shared David Paul: The location where it came in the B&O was called "West Yough" (pronounced West Yock) |
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| William Novak commented on Jeffery's post Look out below! (From the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, June 8, 2014. On CSX.) [Looking at street views, there was a road under that part of the bridge.] |
"This bridge was built in 1968 and is an extremely late example of a truss bridge that uses rivets in its construction. Specifically, rivets are used in the built-up members. Connections are bolted. The lack of v-lacing and lattice in all built-up members is also typical for this late era in riveted built-up beams. Approach spans are welded girders, with no rivets." [HistoricBridges-railroad] It struct me that, because of the nearby road bridge, I can get a closeup of the members. I can clearly see where bolts were used to fasten the members, but I can't see where rivets were used to build the members.
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