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Bainbridge Street Bridge (Old)
Video
| https://youtu.be/mL7mc7-Urd8?t=24s |
Bainbridge Street Bridge Short clip of entering bridge eastbound and then crossing westbound YouTube user BorisDigital Play video on YouTube |
Description
Replaced earlier 1907 bridge. Bridge sported extension girders on north side to support tracks of Sunbury & Selinsgrove Electric Ry. 1928-1934; girders remained until demolition. Toll bridge 1928-1957. 1928 cost $414,000. Concrete piers added between stone piers of original 1907 span. Traffic estimated at 11,000 daily 1957, and 15-18,000 during Northumberland bridge reconstruction & detour in 1976. Tolls abolished 1957. Closed with opening of new bridge to south Nov. 24, 1986.
Image at http://donsdepot.donrossgroup.net/s&s114.jpg
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pony/through plate girder bridge over Susquehanna River on Bainbridge Street (and Sunbury & Selinsgrove Electric Ry. 1928-1934)
- Location
- Shamokin Dam, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, and Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1928, demolished 1986-87
- Builders
- - George W. Rockwell
- Sunbury Bridge Co.
- Railroads
- - Interurban
- Sunbury & Selinsgrove Electric Railway (S&SER)
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 84.5 ft.
Total length: 2,366.0 ft. (0.4 mi.)
- Also called
- Sunbury Toll Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.85480, -76.80613 (decimal degrees)
40°51'17" N, 76°48'22" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/347765/4524208 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sunbury
- Inventory number
- BH 51039 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 11, 2015: New video from Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- March 9, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Sunbury & Selinsgrove Electric Railway", "Interurban", "Susquehanna River"
- January 7, 2013: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: corrected date
- January 23, 2012: Added by Alexander D. Mitchell IV
