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PRR - Shaw Run Trestle
Description
Trestle was built by Bells Gap Railroad around 1873 Became Pennsylvania & North Western Railroad Company in 1874 Taken over by Pennsylvania Railroad in 1902 Filled in and replaced by Earth FillFacts
- Overview
- Lost Bridge over Shaw Run
- Location
- Blair County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Filled in
- History
- Built in 1873; Filled In Unknown Date
- Railroads
- - Bells Gap Railroad
- Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Design
- Wood Trestle
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.64927, -78.38268 (decimal degrees)
40°38'57" N, 78°22'58" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/721295/4503117 (zone/easting/northing)
- Elevation
- 1296 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 97702 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 6, 2022: Updated by Luke: Removed Railroad from builder's section
- April 27, 2022: New photo from Stewart Edwin Beitler
Comments
PRR - Shaw Run Trestle
I think railroads typically had an engineer on their staff back in their early days, along with surveyors and in the case of Union Pacific, a whole construction company.
Shaw Run Trestle
Stewart
Railroads don't go in the builder box. There's a category for bridges that were built by railroad forces. Most bridges weren't built by those forces, and several of the bridges you've put the railroad in the builder box for were built by other manufacturers.
I can't tell you who built this one/Bored the other tunnel, but I can tell you that the Pittsburgh Railways trestles were built by others.
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A couple of the ultra-early railroads had their own bridge shops (B&O and Reading are two known examples.), and the Milwaukee Road liked to do some construction in-house, but for the most part, bridges were/are contracted out to other companies, not done in-house.