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Lehigh Gorge Trail Bridge

Carbon County, Pennsylvania

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Lehigh River Trail Bridge

looking east

Photo taken by Robert M Krug

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #456231

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Description 

Deck plate girder bridge crossing the Lehigh River Gorge.

Facts 

Overview
Steel rigid frame bridge over Davis Creek on D&L Lehigh Gorge Trail
Location
Jim Thorpe, Carbon County, Pennsylvania
Status
Open to pedestrians
History
Built Circa 1950, rehabilitated 1975; changed to trail bridge circa 1990
Railroad
- Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ)
Design
Deck plate girder
Also called
D&L Trail Bridge
Nesquehoning Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.87421, -75.75697   (decimal degrees)
40°52'27" N, 75°45'25" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/436216/4525069 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Nesquehoning
Inventory number
BH 48391 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Carbon County, Pennsylvania (41)
Central Railroad of New Jersey (97)
Continuous (2,468)
Deck girder (5,721)
Girder (10,191)
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania (7)
Open to pedestrians (4,165)
 Owned by National Park Service (470)
Owned by federal government (1,220)
Pennsylvania (5,294)
Plate girder (7,893)
Rail-to-trail (1,513)
Railroad (15,356)

Update Log 

  • January 13, 2021: New photo from Ian Nelson
  • September 16, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • March 8, 2011: Added by Daniel Hopkins

Sources 

  • Daniel Hopkins - chimera [at] clovermail [dot] net
  • Geoff Hubbs
  • Ian Nelson

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