Messerall Road Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #144522
Facts
- Overview
- Bowstring through truss bridge over Pine Creek on Messerall Road
- Location
- Titusville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Abandoned with deck removed
- History
- Built 1876 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Co.; rehabilitated 1960
- Builder
- - Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- Bowstring through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 99.1 ft.
Total length: 103.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.8 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.6 ft.
- Also called
- East Titusville Bridge (original name)
Pine Creek Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.62177, -79.63623 (decimal degrees)
41°37'18" N, 79°38'10" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/613611/4608681 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Titusville South
- Average daily traffic (as of 2010)
- 50
- Inventory numbers
- PA 20 7214 0993 3020 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 13450 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 43132 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of April 2016)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Imminent Failure (1 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 17.3 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- April 6, 2019: New Street View added by Jeff Wieland
- April 6, 2019: New video from Brian Manville
- May 11, 2018: New photos from Chester Gehman
- June 28, 2010: Updated by Robert Elder: Added Keystone columns to Categories
- August 7, 2009: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- HAER PA-495 - Pine Creek Bridge, Spanning Pine Creek at Messerall Road (Township Route 993), Titusville vicinity, Crawford County, PA
- Robert Elder - robertelder1 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Todd Wilson
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Brian Manville
- Jeff Wieland
Comments
That's how I found it then, on Nathan's historicbridges. Maybe never posted our pictures or interest here, just visited when we were in Titusville doing a site vist in S. Perry Street or should that be Oil Creek Bridge. FASCINATING.
Name is the same as it was on January 4th, 2010:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100104092612/https://bridgehun...
I don't think it was changed. HAER lists it as Pine Creek Bridge At Messerall Road. Historicbridges.org lists it as Messerall Road Bridge. The original entry was probably based on the HAER data.
Not my anonymous even though added right after me.
3 things I'm SURE of
1) YOU are not Aribella !
2) I didn't change it
3) Its a way cool bridge glad its going to be saved.
I found it just fine, however, who changed the name and why, and can asearch include all the bridge names? Why the snarky response under anonymous? Might think it is Alucia....lol. Trying to school me won't help. It was Messerall Road before. Im sure there is a reason it was changed.
If you only look at names and don't bother reading descriptions, that's YOUR fault, not anyone else's.
PennDot calls this one Messeral Road Bridge and they are planning to pull and put into storage. I thought this was a new bridge inder Pine Creek Bridge name. Would we have found it in the search engine as we have in the past?
Talk about fracture critical!
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/pa/crawford/pine-creek/
I've added a video for the bridge that I found on YouTube.