Rating:
4 votes
GAP - Riverton Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Parker through truss bridge over Monongahela River on Pennsylvania Union Railroad (now Great Allegheny Passage)
- Location
- West Miffin, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built in 1891; converted into bike trail use in 2008
- Builders
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Pencoyd Bridge & Construction Co. of Pencoyd, Pennsylvania
- Railroads
- - Pennsylvania Union Railroad (URR)
- Rail-to-trail
- Design
- Parker through truss
- Also called
- URR - Riverton Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.35658, -79.84753 (decimal degrees)
40°21'24" N, 79°50'51" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/597862/4467972 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- McKeesport
- Inventory number
- BH 47008 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 20, 2016: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- September 29, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Corrected trail
- May 6, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added builder
- November 14, 2010: Added by Jason Smith
Sources
- Jason Smith - flensburg [dot] bridgehunter [dot] av [at] googlemail [dot] com
- Luke
- Todd Wilson
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/pa/allegheny/bh47008/
This bridge is like a miniature of the Big Four Bridge. Large bridges dedicated strictly for trail use are rare, so I really enjoyed crossing this one.