King's and Barronvale Covered Bridges over Laurel Hill Creek near New Centerville, PA

King's Bridge: (Satellite1, 175 photos; Satellite2, 28 photos)

Barronvale Bridge: (Satellite, 191 photos)

King's Bridge

Street View, Jul 2023

The Outdoor Adventures of Sam & Tim posted five photos with the comment:

As if this bridge was taken straight out of a storybook, 📍King’s Covered Bridge in Pennsylvania is a thing of beauty. It is 127 feet long and 12 feet wide and is open only to pedestrian foot traffic. 🚶🏻‍♀️

From what the sign says on the bridge, and several different websites we pulled research from—it looks like the original construction date is debatable. If it was truly built in 1802 this could mean it’s one of the first covered bridges in the United States. 

According to several different sources; it’s more likely that it was built in the mid 1800s, then reconstructed in 1906 and then again in 2008. 

This area is definitely beautiful and worth a stop if you are already traveling on Route 653. 🚗 Perfect place for a picnic, being right by Laurel Hill Creek. 🏞️

If you have any further information about this bridge, feel free to comment below 😊 👇🏼 

📍King’s Covered Bridge

Coordinates: 39.93760° N, 79.27124° W

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Gary Owen, Apr 2021, cropped

Barronvale Bridge

I found this bridge on a satellite map while looking for a town that was close to the King's Covered Bridge.

Janet Richey, Nov 2023, cropped

The center of the bridge is supported by an arch. We can see the top of the arch in the above photo and the legs of the arch in this photo.

Ron Fulton, May 2023

Scott Pfeifer, Aug 2020

1963 I-95+US-1 Alexander Hamilton Bridge over Harlem River in New York, NY

(Bridge Hiunter broke Mar 22, 2023; Historic Bridges; HAER; Satellite, 126 photos)

Street View, Sep 2022

 

"Structurally, this bridge is two arch bridges side by side sharing a single deck." [HistoricBridges]

HAER NY,3-BRONX,15-
Alexander Hamilton Bridge, Spanning Harlem River between Bronx & Manhattan, Bronx, Bronx County, NY Photos from Survey HAER NY-302
[The Washington Bridge is behind the Hamilton Bridge. Manhattan is on the left (west) and Bronx is on the right.]

Metrotrails posted

A view to the Alexander Hamilton Bridge and the Washington Bridge over the Harlem River, seen from the High Bridge, New York City.

Alexander Hamilton Bridge is an open spandrel steel arch completed in 1963 and carries I-95. The Washington Bridge was completed in 1888. It was widely praised as exemplary work, and has an appearance that was ahead of its time.

M'ke Helbing shared

Timothy Noles: Alexander Hamilton Bridge (cross Bronx Expwy) designed by Hardesty & Hanover!

BestBridge
"The Alexander Hamilton Bridge carries eight lanes of traffic....For 2005, the New York City Department of Transportation, which operates and maintains the bridge, reported average annual daily traffic volume in both directions of 181,566; having reached a peak AADT of 192,848 in 1990. The total length of bridge, including approaches, is 2,375 feet (724 m). The parallel main spans of the steel arch bridge stretch 555 feet (169 m) long over the Harlem River and provide 103 ft (31 m) of vertical clearance at the center and 366 ft (112 m) of horizontal clearance."
This text is also in dome, which acknowledges wikipedia.

Jeffrey Gluck posted
Alexander Hamilton Bridge (I-95 & US Route 1) and Washington Bridge in background

A block-wide path was carved across Manhattan to connect the George Washington Bridge with this bridge. They then built some buildings over the expressway.

mjengineers

The bridge was reconstructed between 2012-14 for $400m. [bronx-future]

The shoulders were widened.

aisc

aisc, this webpage has a lot more construction photos of  the 2012-14 rehabilitation

The lead joint-venture partner was a China company.

ChinaConstruction
"The project was the largest contract from the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) at the time of award." The contract was $419m.
[I presume that means the steel was made in China.
At least some of the steel was evidently fabricated in America. [CanamBridges]
Washington Bridge is in the background and High Bridge is in the foreground.]

The eastbound ramp from I-95 to the Washington Bridge was built with steel box girders.

iiwnyc, this webpage has many more ramp construction photos

According to street view, this ramp project proceeded the $419m project because it was done between 2009 and 2011.

Street View, Jul 2011

Street View, Sep 2009

MichaelMinn took many photos of the bridge in 2005, and he has several views of the old ramp.

MichealMinn, one of many photos of the bridge and its surroundings

1848,2015 High (Aqueduct) Bridge over Harlem River in New York, NY

(Bridge Hunter broke Mar 22, 2023; Satellite)

Street View, Sep 2022

Metrotrails added

High Bridge between the Bronx and Manhattan. It is the oldest bridge in New York City. 

In 1842, the Croton Aqueduct opened between Manhattan and Croton River in Westchester County the first piped clean drinking water to be brought down from upstate.

At first, inverted siphons brought the water down and up under the Harlem River, until the High Bridge was completed in 1848.

The entire route was designed to have a walkway promenade on top, making it one of the first distance hiking trails. From northern Manhattan to the Croton Reservoir, most of the route can still be hiked.

In 1928, the five arches that span the Harlem River were removed, and replaced with a single 450 ft [137m] steel arch to allow for the passage of large ships.

The walkway on the bridge was closed in 1970 after a fatality, and it opened again in 2015.

[Some comments have photos of the Highbrdige Water Tower, which is in the background of this photo.]

Old New York City posted
Highbridge 1860
Paul DiMaria: Was that just repair work? The bridge was built in the 1840's. Bridges Now and Then shared

The water tower is in the left background of this view.

Street View, Oct 2017

Metrotrails added

[Same description as above.]

M'ke Helbing shared

 

Chuck Calio posted
Approaching the High Bridge (originally the Aqueduct Bridge), the oldest bridge in New York City. Croton Reservoir Tower in the background. Taken on the Metro North Train.

Dave Frieder commented on the above post
Aqueduct Bridge or High Bridge in 1858. Before the installation of the 90 1/2 inch water main above the two original 36 inch mains. The Original name was The Harlem River bridge. Engineer of design, John Bloomfield Jervis.

 

River Rail Photo posted

Sperry Under The High Bridge. Sperry Rail 129 (née-Lehigh Valley 29, St. Louis-EMC, 1925) was inspecting tracks on MTA Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line when it passed under the High Bridge in the Bronx, New York on February 12, 2024. Sperry Rail Service inspects tracks for defects to ensure safe travel for its customers. While some of these “doodlebug” passenger service cars are still used, increasingly they have been migrating to new high rail vehicles, putting these veterans on short time on the railroad. The High Bridge opened in 1848, but was closed from 1970-2015. After a major rehabilitation, it re-opened to pedestrians June 9, 2015. It sits 140 feet above the Harlem River and unites Manhattan Island with the Bronx and thus mainland of the Unites States of America. It is also New York City's oldest existing bridge, pre-dating the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge by 35 years.

YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/g4OLOWH75eo 

The speed of the car moving gives an idea as to how painstaking the work is to make sure that defects are identified by the machinery.

Full resolution pics and prints: https://www.riverrailphoto.com/srs 

Matt Gromala: Hopefully the remaining ones enter preservation instead of being scrapped!!

Alden Burns

Alden Burns: Matt Gromala One such car, SRS 135, an ex-SAL car was donated to a museum in 2004: https://www.danburyrail.org/maintenance#135

shu
Five arches were replaced by the steel arch in the 1920s to improve navigation on the Harlem River.
(Specifically, the steel arch was added in 1928. [lehman])

"The High Bridge is the oldest remaining bridge in New York City. The bridge spans the Harlem River, connecting the neighborhoods of Highbridge in the Bronx and Washington Heights in Manhattan. First opened in 1848 as part of the Old Croton Aqueduct, the 1200–foot–long [366m], 116-foot-tall [35m] High Bridge walkway first brought fresh water to New York City from Westchester County and fueled the city’s northward expansion. It was closed to regular public use around 1970." [HarlemRiverWorkingGroup] 

The 1848 bridge was restored as a tral in 2015. [WalkingOffTheBigApple] 

Street View, Jul 2017

lehman
"Highbridge, opened in 1848, is New York City’s oldest surviving bridge. As the first stone structure to connect Manhattan and the mainland, it had been an engineering challenge. Nothing as long—1, 450 feet—or as high—126 feet—had yet been attempted in the United States. Spanning the Harlem River valley on sixteen piers, five of them raised on pilings driven with great difficulty into the river bed, Highbridge took a full nine years to finish. Its mass of granite ashlar supported neither a roadway nor railway, but only two forty-eight inch iron pipes—the final links in the Croton Aqueduct, which brought to New York pure and abundant Westchester water, absolutely essential for its survival." [These dimensions are longer than those given in HarlemRiverWorkingGroup.]

Jeffrey Gluck posted
High Bridge, now a greenway

Jeffrey Gluck posted
High Bridge water tower

River Rail Photo posted three photos with the comment:

Hudson High Bridge Freight. On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, the High Bridge in the Bronx, New York, saw a pair of unusual 'freight' moves in daylight. While the main feature was CSX M701, outlawed from the previous night and recrewed in Beacon, New York, MTA Metro-North Railroad's own AMMO (Daytime Mott Haven based switch crew) made what has become a weekly trip to take out the garbage from Grand Central Terminal.  The High Bridge, a vintage New York City landmark that was constructed in 1848, stands watch over the scene. When trackside on the Hudson Line you never know what you might see.

Full resolution pics and prints:

https://www.riverrailphoto.com/mncwworktrains/e20b93ab7

https://www.riverrailphoto.com/freighttrains/e20119bc8

https://www.riverrailphoto.com/freighttrains/e3852a6a9

River Rail Photo shared

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Lost/IC Bridge over Pecatonica River and 1911 Flood near Martintown, WI and Depot

(Bridge Hunter broke Mar 22, 2023; Satellite)

This bridge was on the IC Dodgeville Branch that was abandoned in 1942.

Winslow Historical Society and Museum posted three photos with the comment: "Train bridge collapse in Martintown, WI.  These postcard pictures are from 1911 probably in the fall or late winter (as there are no leaves on the trees).  However, I do not have any detailed info on this situation.  I know there is info out there and maybe you can help."

Sharon Albright Moeller: From Bridgehunter dot com: Built 1868 at LaSalle, Illinois; Moved here (Green County) 1897; Damaged by flooding-caused abutment failure on February 19, 1911. 

Lost Linville variant Whipple through truss bridge over Pecatonica River on Illinois Central Railroad.

Destroyed by flooding

Dennis Bergman shared with the comment: "This bridge was near the Illinois/Wisconsin State Line. It was on the rail line from Freeport, Illinois to Dodgeville, Wisconsin."

Guy Devers: Abutments are still there.By the picture I would say a flood. The Pecatonica river is not normally that wide.

Dennis Bergman: Guy Devers Agree

Tim Howard: "This image was also printed on a postcard and was scanned from one sent from Martintown to Fresno County, CA by Fred Hastings to his first cousin Alie Spece. It portrays the wreck of the railroad trestle bridge, the abutment having been eroded by the 19 February 1911 flood of the Pecatonica River, causing the structure to collapse. The locomotive brakeman swam to a tree and was forced to wait there for half an hour before being rescued. The big white house in the background is not the Nathaniel Martin residence. It is the home of James and Rosie Van Matre and family, who in the early 20th Century had the property immediately to the west of the Martin parcel. (Minta, Ava, and Christie Van Matre, shown in the teens-on-the-river-ice photo above, were three of James and Rosie’s kids.) The building at the far left, in the water, is the Martin School. Locals considered the collapse quite a dramatic event. The bridge had been built in LaSalle, IL in 1868 and was moved to Martintown decades into its lifetime, and was not considered likely to give way as it did. It led to the photographer or his employer publishing for sale several different vantages of the scene. This one is number four in the sequence." https://davesmeds.malibulist.com/fam/martintown.htm

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Lalrry Candilas commented on Dennis' share
Around the same time - the young lady might be waiting for the bridge to get repaired.

Dave Smeds commented on the above post
I think I mentioned the date here a year or two ago. Yes, it was 19 Feb 1911. The train went into the water at seven in the morning. The brakeman was stuck in the wreck for half an hour -- mighty cold water! Attached is the post card send by my grandfather's brother-in-law Fred Hastings of Martintown and Cadiz Township to my grandpa's other brother-in-law Alfonso James Spece, who had moved away from Cadiz Township in 1908 and was in 1911 based in Fresno County, CA. (The post card is not postmarked because it was tucked into an outer envelope, but it was mailed the week of the wreck.) This pic is not the same as the one shown above, but is by the same photographer taken on the same day.

This IC route was abandoned by 1955, but it does show up on a 1923 topo map.

1923 South Wayne Quad @ 62,500

We can still see some different colors in the fields where the RoW was.

Satellite

This Dodgeville Branch of the IC was chartered as the Freeport, Dodgeville and Northern Railroad (FD&N). [Tim Julhall via Dennis DeBruler]

Blue Ridge Parkway over I-26 Overpasses near Ashville, NC

(Bridge Hunter broke Mar 22, 2023; Satellite)

The Blue Ridge Parkway overpass is not in bad condition, but it is being replaced to expand I-26. Construction started in 2019. [citizen-times]

I-26 is going from 4 to 8 lanes. Construction of the new 606' (185m) long bridge and destruction of the old bridge was planned to take 3 years. [NPS] I'm writing this in Jan 2024, so it going to be more than 5 years.

A steel girder bridge is being replaced by a box-girder concrete bridge.

Street View, June 2023

My motivation for these notes:

New Blue Ridge Parkway/MST I-26 Bridge posted two photos with the comment: "As of the end of 2023. It's been too cold to add segments lately. Work on this end of the bridge is even closer to the old bridge giving a great observation point."

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avlwatchdog, Watchdog photo by John Boyle
"The bridge will be 605 feet (about 184 meters) long when completed, with two travel lanes and a sidewalk. The width is 36 feet (11 meters), and the roadway has a 6-degree slope to it, as it is in a curve on the Parkway. The bottom of the new bridge will be 85 to 90 feet (26 meters) above the I-26 roadway, the top 105 to 115 feet (32 to 35 meters). It will have a pedestrian sidewalk on the north side."
The bridge consists of 62 pre-cast segments that are posttensioned. The two piers have 14 segments, total. The $14.5m bridge is part of the $531m I-26 widening project.

The main reason I'm noting an overpass is that it has a Facebook page with a lot of contruction photos. Some of the posts that caught my eye.

Sep 27, 2023: New Blue Ridge Parkway/MST I-26 Bridge posted three photos with the comment: "Three great aerial pictures came to our attention this afternoon. Pictures show stacking of the south pier from yesterday (9/26)."

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Some times they add a segment with the crane, other times they use the Segment Lifter. 

Nov 18, 2023: New Blue Ridge Parkway/MST I-26 Bridge posted four photos with the comment: "Last night the Segment Lifter was transferred over from the other side. Here are a few pictures of that operation courtesy of the 'crew.'"

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