Rating:
42366
{80}%
7 votes
Reading - Halls Station Bridge
Description
The Reading-Halls Bridge is almost certainly the oldest all-metal truss bridge in active service in the United States, a lone survivor from the first series of all-metal trusses of any kind designed and constructed in the United States. This Howe pony through-truss bridge followed shortly after the construction in 1845 of the very first all-metal truss bridge, the West Manayunk Bridge, also designed by Osborne and built by the Reading Railroad.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Wrought and cast iron pony truss bridge over former Philadelphia & Reading RR on private drive
- Location
- Lycoming County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- In use for private road/drive
- History
- Built ca. 1846 on the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad; later relocated here to carry vehicular traffic
- Builder
- - Richard B. Osborne (Engineer)
- Railroad
- - Reading Railroad (RDG)
- Design
- Howe pony truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 59.1 ft.
Total length: 59.1 ft.
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on January 17, 1980
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.23576, -76.83249 (decimal degrees)
41°14'09" N, 76°49'57" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/346431/4566548 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Muncy
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 80003571 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 42366 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 12, 2017: New photos from Dana and Kay Klein
- January 9, 2012: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: Added Modern Photo
- April 19, 2009: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- HAER PA-55 - Reading-Halls Station Bridge, U.S. Route 220, spanning railroad near Halls Station, Muncy vicinity, Lycoming County, PA
- Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- Wikipedia
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- HAER PA-55 - Reading-Halls Station Bridge, U.S. Route 220, spanning railroad near Halls Station, Muncy, Lycoming County, PA
- Dana and Kay Klein
Respectfully verified from roadway. This is private and since I did not have permission to access of course we didn't. From public roadway and with my dim eyesight this appears to be an absolute pontist treasure!