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West Penn - Glencoe Viaduct
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned concrete deck girder bridge over Monongahela Creek on West Penn RR (abandoned)
- Location
- Fayette County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- History
- Built 1908
- Railroads
- - Interurban
- West Penn Railways
- Design
- Concrete deck girder
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.98988, -79.87279 (decimal degrees)
39°59'24" N, 79°52'22" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/596233/4427242 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- New Salem
- Inventory number
- BH 59586 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Related Bridges
- West Penn - Dunlap Creek Viaduct (Same project) - Both these bridges were experiments conducted by the West Penn Railroad
Sources
- Frank Hicks
- Stuff That's Gone - Past and present photos of the Glencoe Viaduct
- Luke
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we walked over this last year.
There is a second bridge further down.
We are going to find this one this year.
Very friendly people at the end of the bridge.