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Farm Lane Bridge
Description
The bridge will be part of a heritage bridge site built with public and private enterprises led by DNREC.Facts
- Overview
- Pratt pony truss bridge over West Clay Creek
- Location
- Yorklyn, New Castle County, Delaware
- Status
- The bridge has been restored and coated, and is awaiting installation in the Fall 2016.
- History
- This bridge was destined for a trail in York, Pennsylvania but they chose not to use it. It was listed for sale in the PennDOT "Bridges for Sale" Program. It has been engineered for 20 ton & widened to allow for 1-lane vehicular and pedestrians.
- Builders
- - BACH Steel of Holt, Michigan
- King Iron Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio [also known as King Bridge Co.]
- Design
- Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 69.8 ft.
Deck width: 15.3 ft.
- Also called
- Marsh Creek Bridge,
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.80839, -75.68120 (decimal degrees)
39°48'30" N, 75°40'52" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/441690/4406712 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Kennett Square
- Inventory number
- BH 72226 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- Julie Bowers - jbowerz1 [at] gmail [dot] com
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This pony truss is now ready for triple railings that provide a walkway and a vehicle passage. The middle rail can be removed if a wider vehicle is required. The engineering was interesting as it had special requirements for a farmer, four houses and the historic location. Altered foroading but every part is essential to the whole. If we are to continue saving these bridges alteration is one way. Bach Steel is the fabricator on all our projects with engineering by Jim Schiffer.
You can see Pennsylvania from there.