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Powerhouse Bridge
Description
A 500 foot raised trestle bridge made of strong timber and concrete, featuring a steel deck truss center span, all the railroad tracks have since been removed, but a level of wood and dirt remain as a testimonial of the history of the railroad.
This was once a part of the Atglen & Susquehanna Branch, a Pennsylvania RR low-grade freight bypass of Lancaster between Columbia and Atglen, and used to carry several freight trains a day between the Harrisburg area and points east; Conrail acquired PRR successor Penn Central in 1976 and later shifted through freight trains off the ex-PRR Harrisburg-Philadelphia-Trenton routes in favor of former Reading RR routes. Conrail abandoned this bridge, and the entire Atglen & Susquehanna, around 1980. Currently it is apart of the planned Enola Low Grade Trail which extends from just outside Harrisburg to Paradise, Pa.
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned bridge on former PRR low-grade freight line, it crosses over the Congestoga Creek and passes by the Safe Harbor Powerplant
- Location
- Safe Harbor, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Abandoned but used by pedistrans and 4-wheel drive vehicles
- History
- Built 1925, this bridge was a part of the the Atglen & Susquehanna Branch on the PRR
- Design
- Single deck Pratt truss over creek, with trestle deck girders on both approaches
- Also called
- Safe Harbor Crossing
Port Deposit Trestle
Enola Low Grade Safe-harbor Crossing
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.92532, -76.38432 (decimal degrees)
39°55'31" N, 76°23'04" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/381704/4420386 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Safe Harbor
- Inventory number
- BH 47614 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 15, 2011: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added the Enola Low Grade info
- July 8, 2011: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Updated informaiton about the Enola Low Grade Trail
- July 7, 2011: New photo from Luke Harden
- June 11, 2011: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: Description and overview corrected and expanded, creek name corrected
- May 27, 2011: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Updated creek name
- May 26, 2011: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: updated history
- January 11, 2011: Added by Daniel Hopkins
Comments
Powerhouse Bridge
Posted July 8, 2011, by Daniel Hopkins (chimera [at] clovermail [dot] net)
OH WOW! I love that pic!! I was going to figure a way to get to the bridge soon so I could get some good pictures of it but wow!
Powerhouse Bridge
Posted July 7, 2011, by Sean McDonnell (onesmooth68 [at] comcast [dot] net)
Photo from 2005
Webmaster's note: The photo that was here has been incorporated into the main site.