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Byram Road Bridge
Photos
Point Pleasant Pike Bridge -- August 8, 2009
Overview looking towards the Delaware River
Photo taken by Raymond Klein
BH Photo #151459
Facts
- Overview
- pin-connected Pratt Pony truss bridge over Pennsylvania Canal on Point Pleasant Pk, PointPleasant (Plumstead Twp) PA.
- Location
- Point Pleasant, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1877; rehabilitated 1995
- Builder
- - Murray, Dougal & Co. of Milton, Pennsylvania
- Design
- pin-connected Pratt Pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 86.9 ft.
Total length: 88.9 ft.
Deck width: 17.1 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1988
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.42366, -75.06524 (decimal degrees)
40°25'25" N, 75°03'55" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/494465/4474783 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lumberville
- Inventory numbers
- PA 09 1006 0290 0033 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
NRHP 800000814 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
PANBI 07118 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 30546 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 01/2009)
- Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 49.8 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
- 666
Update Log
- May 30, 2017: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- March 2, 2014: Photo imported by Dave King
- January 2, 2010: Updated by Raymond Klein: Changed type from Pony Truss toPin-Connected Pratt Pony Truss. Info from Historic Bridge.org
- November 16, 2009: Updated by Raymond Klein: Pt. Pleasant to Name & Overview-National Register 1988-Murray Douugal Milton PA 1877 builder- Doylestown, PA to USGS
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The picture label "Mrs. Brady" was not taken on this bridge. It was taken on the Point Pleasant, PA-Point Pleasant, NJ bridge. That bridge does not have a listing that I have found on this site. It was a truss bridge that was washed away in the flood of 1955, and not replaced.