Thursday, July 18, 2024

1927,1988 McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge over Monongahela River at McKeesport, PA

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; pghbridges; Satellite, 18 photos)

Street View, Dec 2021

"This large truss bridge is an extremely late example of a pin-connected truss bridge due to its 1927 construction date. By this time rivet connections were almost always the standard." [HistoricBridges]
River View, Feb 2021

HistoricBridges
This bridge is 2,252' (686m) long with three river spans of 382' (116m).

River View, Feb 2021

pghbridges
"The main structure passes over about 60 railroad tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Baltimore and Ohio railroad and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad."

This is the photo that motivated this research. The McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge is the one in the background, and the GAP Trail/US Steel/Pennsy+B&O Bridge is the one in the foreground.
Dave Kuntz posted via Dennis DeBruler

The bridge goes bluff-to-bluff, but they had to remove some of a bluff to connect some of the approach roads.
HistoricPittsburgh


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