Fallston Bridge
Photos
Oblique View, Looking Due North From Fallston Into New Brighton
Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #142011
Facts
- Overview
- Two-span Whipple through truss bridge over Beaver River on Front Street in Fallston
- Location
- New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Intact but closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1884 by the Penn Bridge Co.; rehabilitated 2005
- Builder
- - Penn Bridge Co. of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania
- Design
- Whipple through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 405.9 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.72753, -80.31007 (decimal degrees)
40°43'39" N, 80°18'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/558262/4508739 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Beaver
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 6,523
- Inventory numbers
- PA 04 7412 0000 4026 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 03900 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 30353 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of August 2017)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Imminent Failure (1 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 2 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- October 31, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- October 29, 2018: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- November 15, 2016: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- August 10, 2014: Updated by Tony Dillon: Fixed location
- July 23, 2009: New photos from James Baughn
- July 1, 2009: Posted HAER photos
Sources
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Bridgemapper.com
- HAER PA-580 - Fallston Bridge, Spanning Beaver River at Front Street, Fallston, Beaver County, PA
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Todd Wilson
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Fallston Bridge Commission disbands amid project's uncertain future - News - The Times - Beaver, PA
- Geoff Hubbs
Comments
Please watch the language, this is G rated family website.
First time that we ran into a developer on a bridge save. St. Barnabus active senior living foundation thought they might like to build condos on Fallston and would we mind giving them time to bring in their architects and engineers.
They surprised me. I surprised them. They didnt know that I am a bridge bitch. I offered other, far more suitable highway bridges, but no, they only wanted this one. Location.
This week we ask for a lease so that this bridge is prtotected.
If you are in Western Pennsylvania and you want to participate in saving a bridge, this is a good one.
Video of bridge:
A resident had started a petition to reopen this bridge.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/keep-the-fallston-bridge-...
That sidewalk has been a mess for years. It was heaved up back in 2006 when HistoricBridges.org first field visited the bridge: http://www.historicbridges.org/pennsylvania/fallston/pict953...
It was funny, a cop drove by, couldn't figure out why a couple people would want to photograph the bridge. He didn't care, he was just simply dumbfounded. Couldn't imagine that anyone would think this bridge was special. http://www.historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowse...
So a sidewalk was damaged, and the resolution is to permanently close the entire bridge? Pennsylvania...
Closed Feb. 17 after a water line beneath the bridge broke and buckled the sidewalk.
http://www.timesonline.com/news/local_news/officials-fallsto...
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/pa/beaver/fallston/
It's more of a PG13 website.