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Note the two smokestacks on the right side of the photo below. I noticed them when I got the above view, but I did not want to make that view wider in order to include them. They still have Heinz 57 painted on them. pghbridges has information about the pylon sculptures including why they are brown instead of green.
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| 1 of 5 photos posted by Bridges & Tunnels You can get lost exploring the bridges of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania because there are simply so many to look at. But one of my favorites is the Sixteenth Street Bridge, a steel through arch structure that carries Sixteenth Street over the Allegheny River. The first iteration of a bridge at this location was the Northern Liberties Bridge, a covered Burr arch truss structure, that was erected in 1840 and rebuilt in 1866. It became more simply the Sixteenth Street Bridge in 1868. The deteriorated structure, the last of its kind in the city, burned in a spectacular fire on the morning of April 23, 1918. Back-and-forth on what share the city and county would pay for the new bridge and approaches led to years-long delays but finally, work was underway on the new Sixteenth Street Bridge by 1921 with steel erection by the Fort Pitt Bridge Works beginning that November. The new crossing was opened on the night of October 9, 1923. It closed for major repairs in 1981-82 and 2002, with work including bridge deck replacement, painting, and other miscellaneous structural work. The crossing closed at 11 AM on July 7, 2013, and reopened at 5 PM following a rededication ceremony that renamed the Sixteenth Street Bridge the David McCullough Bridge after David McCullough, a renowned local author and historian. ➤ Check out more photos and history of this magnificent bridge at http://bridgestunnels.com/location/sixteenth-street-bridge/ |
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