US-522 over C&O Canal & Potomac River and over Main Street in Hancock, MD

River & Canal: (Archived Bridge Hunter is broke, no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Main Street: (no Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

I labeled these notes as both "bridgeTruss" and "bridgeGirderSteel" because it is a hybrid of both.

Street View, Apr 2016

I include the Main Street Bridge because that is the one that Historic Bridges choose to document.

Street View, Sep 2023

Since the BridgeHunter link is broke, I can only access the index entry. Since this bridge was built in 1937, I don't know why I can't find it in HistoricBridges. It is old and it has plenty of character.

BridgeHunter_index

Metrotrails added

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal passing beneath the Rt 522 Bridge in Hancock Maryland looking east.

This bridge is an uncommon example of a combination Wichert Deck Truss and deck girder span built about 1937. It crosses the Potomac River between Maryland and West Virginia at the point where Maryland is under 2 miles wide from north to south.

Denny Baughman: Nice photo of a very unique bridge…Although I worked in the bridge industry nationwide for 50 years (including the inspection of the former wichert deck truss over the Potomac and C&O Canal downstream at Shepherdstown WV), this is a bridge type that I’ve never seen before.

M'ke Helbing shared

MDOT, SHA photo