The Pencoyd Bridge is now also a trail bridge. [BicycleCoalition] The trail is cantilevered on the side of the bridge because the bridge itself provides vehicle access to some buildings on the west side of the river. (A source implied that the cantilevered passage was always there, but it carried a horse&wagon road while the bridge carried an industrial spur.)
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| Street View, Jul 2019 |
If you are here because of this nearby concrete arch bridge, then you need to go there.
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| Street View, Jul 2019 |
This view shows that the trusses are skewed so that the piers are parallel to the flow of the water.
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| TaylorWiseman "The structure, originally built in 1900 as a railroad bridge, consists of two 183-foot truss spans and one built-up through-plate girder span." |
It looks like a pin-connected truss.
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| B ES, Mar 2020 |
Yep, it is pin connected.
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| wje "Constructed in 1900, the privately owned Pencoyd Bridge was built to carry an industrial spur of the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 2016, the bridge was rehabilitated to a one-lane, reversible private roadway providing vehicular access between the Royal Athena apartment complex in Lower Merion Township and Main Street in Manayunk." [Looking at the topo map, I don't see how this spur connected to the Pennsy. This source says it was built in 1894 by the Pencoyd Iron Works. But that source was ChatGPT, so I don't trust it. And the text is a good example of how you can use a lot of words but still say very little by repeating, several times, a few concepts.] |
The Pencoyd Iron Works used to be on the land between the railroad and the river.
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| MickRicereto |
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| ThisIsLowerMerion The iron works built the metal parts for the Main Exibition Building for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, then the largest building in the world. |
The remnents of the iron works have been gentrified as the Pencoyd Landing.
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| land-collective, this webpage has a lot more photos of the Pencoyd Landing |
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