Rating:
48427
{57}%
2 votes
Lower Trail - Mt Etna Bridge
Photos
Split by Wall
This is the only bridge that can be found on this line wide enough for two tracks. The right side is for the rail trail, and the left is for a road.
Lance Myeers, March 2004
View this photo at railfanusa.com
BH Photo #195265
Description
Dual track bridge once used for heavy traffic on this Petersburg Branch of the old Pennsylvania Railroad, now a part of the Lower Rail Trail.
Facts
- Overview
- Bridge over Juniata River on Lower Rail Trail
- Location
- Alexandria, Blair County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Open to pedestrians & bicylces on the trail side, Traffic on the other
- History
- Built 1930
- Railroad
- - Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Also called
- Split Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.52267, -78.17207 (decimal degrees)
40°31'22" N, 78°10'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/739556/4489613 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Spruce Creek
- Inventory number
- BH 48427 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 4, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- August 10, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added category "Railroad"
- July 14, 2011: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Updated status
- March 15, 2011: Added by Daniel Hopkins