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Washingtonville Bridge
Description
The Washingtonville Bridge is a small span Pratt pony truss, fabricated by the Phoenix Bridge Company for the New York firm of Dean & Westbrook. It is a typical example, although a rare survivor, of a standardized Phoenix Bridge Company low truss roadway bridge. The bridge is one of 144 Pennsylvania highway bridges nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Bridge structure relocated to Knoebels Grove Amusement Park in 1987 and reconstructed for adaptive reuse on a steam-powered miniature amusement railroad.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pony truss bridge over Chillisquaque Creek on Bush Road (Legislative Route 47036)
- Location
- Montour County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1887; Replaced 1987
- Builders
- - Dean & Westbrook of New York, New York
- Phoenix Bridge Co. of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
- Design
- 5-panel pin-connected Pratt Pony truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 73.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.05674, -76.67981 (decimal degrees)
41°03'24" N, 76°40'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/358844/4546414 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Washingtonville
- Inventory number
- BH 65612 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 22, 2015: Added by Dave King
Sources
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- HAER PA-98 - Washingtonville Bridge, Pennsylvania Legislative Route 47036, spanning Chillisquaque Creek (Derry Township), Washingtonville, Montour County, PA
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth