Historic Bridges of the U.S. | Beech Creek Bridge

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Photo taken May 2006 by Jack Schmidt

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Overview: Through truss bridge over Beech Creek on PA 150 in Beech Creek
Status: Open to traffic
History: Built 1935; rehabilitated 1985
Design: Pratt through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 144.0 ft.
Total length: 149.0 ft.
Deck width: 33.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +41.07490, -77.59213 (decimal degrees)
41°04'30" N, 77°35'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers: PA 18 0150 0010 0000 (Pennsylvania bridge number)
BH 30734 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 03/2006): Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 81.6 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 2002): 4,541

Update Log

November 2, 2006: Posted photo from Jack Schmidt

Sources

Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net

Comments

Beech Creek Bridge

Posted December 7, 2006, by Richard (Dick) Stevens (dsteveens [at] visuallink [dot] com)

I'm surprised to see this bridge, I was born 500" feet from there in 1923, attended Beech Creek school in the 3rd

grade and moved to Washington DC (1932) I was about 9 yrs old I think. I'm now 83 living in Stephens City, Va. I worked in Washington DC for the Bell Telephone Co and retired in 1982 after 41+ years. My uncle chopped ice up stream from that bridge. I crossed the bridge the past summer and it looked like a lot of paint was off.

Dick Stevens, 108 White Pine Circle, Stephens City, VA 22655---1-540-869-5446 George Peters was my uncle

any comments? dstevens@visuallink.com