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Brower Avenue Bridge Oaks, PA

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and Chester County, Pennsylvania
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Bower Avenue Bridge -- November 11, 2008

Overview looking towards Perkiomen Junction

Photo taken by Raymond Klein

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Facts 

Overview
Deck plate girder bridge over Schuylkill River on Former Perkiomen Branch Reading Railroad
Location
Oaks, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and Chester County, Pennsylvania
Future prospects
Could become part of a local rail trail
Design
Deck plate girder
Closed-spandrel concrete arch
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.12463, -75.46142   (decimal degrees)
40°07'29" N, 75°27'41" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/460685/4441692 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Norristown, PA
Inventory number
BH 44143 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Arch (9,418)
Available for reuse (162)
Built 1910 (741)
Built during 1910s (6,730)
Chester County, Pennsylvania (113)
Closed (2,071)
Closed-spandrel arch (2,757)
Deck arch (8,698)
Deck girder (1,800)
 Girder (3,236)
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (159)
Oaks, Pennsylvania (2)
Pennsylvania (3,037)
Philadelphia & Reading Railway (46)
Plate girder (2,250)
Rail-to-trail (494)
Railroad (4,070)
Schuylkill River (65)

Update Log 

  • January 10, 2011: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Updated status
  • October 1, 2010: New photo from Raymond Klein
  • July 25, 2010: Updated by D. Thomsen: Added Schuylkill River category.
  • March 7, 2010: Updated by Joshua Collins: added gps coordinates, added Chester County, PA to location, updated main design and approach design
  • February 16, 2010: Added by Raymond Klein

Sources 

  • Raymond Klein - Bookshelfthe [at] msn [dot] com
  • Joshua Collins - Bigjc1979 [at] aol [dot] com
  • D. Thomsen - dcthomsen [at] comcast [dot] net
  • Daniel Hopkins - chimera [at] clovermail [dot] net

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