The official name for the 1911 bridge was "Ohio River Bridge No. 1." [CorapolishHistoricalSociety]
The 1911 bridge had an emergency closing May 14, 1980. Local citizens fought bureaucracies on the local, state and federal level to get a replacement bridge built. [SewickleyHistory]
The replacement bridge is a continuous truss. [Flickr]
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| Brdges Now and Then posted The Ohio River Bridge No. 1, spanning the Ohio River between Sewickley and Moon Township, Pennsylvania, c. 1980. The old Sewickley Bridge closed on May 14, 1980. A replacement bridge was built using the original piers, and mimicked the old bridge's shape and scale, (HAER) Dennis DeBruler HAER PA,2-SEW,1--23 23. West elevation oblique, looking north. - Sewickley Bridge, Spanning Ohio River, Sewickley, Allegheny County, PA |
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| HAER PA,2-SEW,1--2 2. Elevation view looking downstream. - Sewickley Bridge, Spanning Ohio River, Sewickley, Allegheny County, PA |
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| HAER PA,2-SEW,1--8 8. Main span tower framing at pier 3. - Sewickley Bridge, Spanning Ohio River, Sewickley, Allegheny County, PA |
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| CorapolishHistoricalSociety Opening of the Coraopolis-Sewickley Bridge Sep 19, 1911 (Moon Township Historical Society) |
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| CorapolishHistoricalSociety. one of six postcards at the bottom of the page |
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| David Holoweiko posted The 800 tons of the center span of the Sewickley bridge Sewickley Pa north of Pittsburgh are lowered to barges below. July 9th 1980. The bridge had been inspected in the 1970's and found to be in need of major repair . Instead of tearing it down and replacing it . It was decided to lower it to barges and take it for repair. It took American Bridge company 2 1/2 hours to lower the bridge using 10 1 inch diameter cables Robb J. Cardimen: This bridge was torn down in the late 1970s and replaced by USS American Bridge Company in 1981. It’s rumored to be the last bridge fabricated in the Ambridge factory of American Bridge! Daria Phoebe Brashear: The repair and rehang of the steel was done in 1977. The bridge was replaced in 1980: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/89369879/ [It wouldn't last three more years after 1977?] |
One of the finals from the old bridge. The location was provided in the description in BridgeHunter-1911.
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| Street View |
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| HeritageValley (another copy of this photo is here) The bridge was closed about three weeks during the summer of 2020 |
"Preservation work on the bridge includes a deck overlay, bearing and deck joint replacement, and other miscellaneous construction activities. " [PDOT]
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