Rating:
79930
{0}%
No votes cast
Monocacy Creek Reading Railroad Bridge
Photos
South span
Photo taken by Royce and Bobette Haley in December 2017
Enlarge
BH Photo #415515
Description
Three deck plate girders in parallel.
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Monocacy on RDGRR
- Location
- Bethlehem, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1921
- Builder
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Railroad
- - Reading Railroad (RDG)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
-
Span length: 60.0 ft.
Total length: 60.0 ft.
Deck width: 38.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.61667, -75.38068 (decimal degrees)
40°37'00" N, 75°22'50" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/467799/4496275 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Allentown East
- Inventory number
- BH 79930 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 3, 2018: Added by Royce and Bobette Haley
Sources
- Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com