Facts
Note: The following information comes from the National Bridge Inventory and has not been verified.
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over South Whitford Road on Conrail
- Location
- Chester County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1905
- Railroad
- - Conrail (CR)
- Design
- Through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 49.9 ft.
Total length: 521.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.96667, -75.58833 (decimal degrees)
39°58'00" N, 75°35'18" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/449755/4424223 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- West Chester
- Inventory numbers
- PA 15 3069 0050 0870 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
BH 41512 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
The dimensions are off for this bridge. According to a 2000 HAER report, the Whitford Bridge's Parker truss is 56'-0" deep at mid-span and measures 373'-l" from center to center of its endmost pins.
It is also reputedly owned by Norfolk Southern Railroad, transferred by Conrail in 1984.