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PC - Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Bridge (2nd)
Description
Predecessor lift bridge to present-day lift bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over Chesapeake & Delaware Canal on Pennsylvania RR
- Location
- New Castle County, Delaware
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built ca. 1925 to replace earlier bridge when canal expanded after acquisition by Army Corps of Engineers, replaced by new bridge 1/4 mile to south as canal realigned and widened in 1960s; Completely removed 1972
- Builders
- - J.A.L. Waddell of Port Hope, Canada
- Phoenix Bridge Co. of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
- Railroads
- - Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Design
- Through truss vertical lift
- Also called
- PRR - Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Bridge (2nd)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.54749, -75.70223 (decimal degrees)
39°32'51" N, 75°42'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/439663/4377770 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Saint Georges
- Inventory number
- BH 61356 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 19, 2018: Updated by Luke: Noted that bridge wasn't totally removed until 1972
- May 18, 2018: Photo imported by Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- January 13, 2017: New photo from Douglas Butler
- January 19, 2015: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: Updated history
- June 14, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler