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Archived Bridge Hunter;
Historic Bridges;
pghbridges;
Satellite, 18 photos)
"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]
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HistoricBridges This bridge is 2,252' (686m) long with three river spans of 382' (116m). |
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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.
The bridge goes bluff-to-bluff, but they had to remove some of a bluff to connect some of the approach roads.
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