1937 Trail/Fishbelly: (
Archived Bridge Hunter; no Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges;
Satellite)
H&BTM = Huntingdon & Broad Top Mountain
1937 Trail/Fishbelly
It has been added to the trail.
Thropp Viaduct
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| c1921 Postcard via BridgeHunter |
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posted by PRR Bedford Branch History Preservationist with the comment:
Between Everett and Mount Dallas, there was a spur that rounded a 180-degree turn as it crossed the Raystown branch of the Juniata river to the south side. There it served the
Earlston Furnace.
This was called the Thropp bridge.
built in 1884 by the Everett Iron Company.
The furnace went idle shortly after opening, but was put back into operation when the company was purchased by Joseph Thropp in 1889 and put into blast in 1890. The furnace was shut down in 1923, and the company went bankrupt in 1933. In June 1933, the plant was sold to the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, who began dismantling it in June of 1934.
This furnace was connected to the H&BTM using the Thropp Bridge. But it was also directly connected to the PRR too. Refer to the map and you can see the direct connection bypassing the Thropp Bridge.
Byron Smail: Earlston furnace was 1 of the 4 major latest and most modern iron furnaces in the Juniata Iron District.
Rockhill, Saxton, Riddlesburg, Earlston
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[With the Thropp bridge in the background.] |
These maps are wrong because they show the bridge heading West to the Pennsy tracks rather than curving back East to head to the Earlston Furnace. And BridgeHunter is wrong because it claims that the bridge carried Penn Central. The bridge carried H&BTM so that both Pennsy and H&BTM terminated at the iron works.
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| PRR Bedford Branch History Preservationist commented on their own post |
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Peter Fleszar commented on the above comment
here’s a map of present day showing the hiking trails on both sides of the gap relative to the old rail lines |
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