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DLW - Lackawanna River Bridge (Scranton)

Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

Photos 

Perspective Of Bridge 60 Looking East.

Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record

View photos at Library of Congress

BH Photo #217546

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Deck plate girder bridge over Lackawanna River on Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Location
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1906
Builder
- McClintic-Marshall Co. of Chicago, Illinois & Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Railroads
- Conrail (CR)
- Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DLW)
- Erie Lackawanna Railroad (EL)
Design
Six-track deck plate girder
Also called
Bridge 60
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.41096, -75.67318   (decimal degrees)
41°24'39" N, 75°40'23" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/443737/4584597 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Scranton
Inventory number
BH 49836 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1906 (622)
Built during 1900s (7,224)
Conrail (1,554)
Deck girder (5,742)
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (201)
Erie Lackawanna Railroad (391)
Girder (10,231)
 HAER documented (1,106)
Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania (66)
McClintic-Marshall Co. (76)
Open (39,880)
Owned by railroad (12,414)
Pennsylvania (5,317)
Plate girder (7,920)

Update Log 

  • June 12, 2018: Updated by Royce and Bobette Haley: cor. date
  • October 16, 2011: Added by James Baughn

Sources 

  • HAER PA-132-A - Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Bridge 60, Spanning Lackawanna River, Seventh Avenue & Bridge Street, Scranton, Lackawanna County, PA
  • Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com

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