Point Marion Bridge

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Albert Gallatin Memorial Bridge (1930) - West End

Brian M. Powell

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

BH Photo #277485

Overview: Lost cantilevered through truss bridge over the Monongahela River on PA 88
Location: Greene County, Pennsylvania, and Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Status: Replaced by new bridge
History: Built 1930 by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co.; rehabilitated 1976; replaced 2009
Builders: - General Contracting Corporation (Contractor)
- Harrington & Cortelyou of Kansas City (Consulting engineers)
- Pittsburgh-Des Moines Steel Co. of Des Moines, Iowa & Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Design: Cantilevered Warren through truss
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 463.9 ft.
Total length: 810.1 ft.
Deck width: 19.7 ft.
Recognition: Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1988
Also called: Albert Gallatin Memorial Bridge (official name)
Approximate latitude, longitude: +39.73923, -79.90354 (decimal degrees)
39°44'21" N, 79°54'13" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 17/593949/4399389 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Morgantown North
Average daily traffic (as of 2010): 100
Inventory numbers: NRHP 88000841 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
PA 30 0088 0006 0000 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
BH 42915 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of January 2010): Sufficiency rating: 94.8 (out of 100)
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Point Marion Bridge

Posted December 1, 2009, by Terry Divelbliss (vette442 [at] hotmail [dot] com)

I took these photos on October 24, 2009 which was three weeks before the bridge was imploded on November 16, 2009.

Terry