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Crawford Avenue Bridge

Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Photos 

From the Street Railway Review Volume 15; 1905

Photo scanned by Internet Archive Book Images

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BH Photo #331389

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Parker through truss bridge over Youghiogheny River on Crawford Avenue & West Penn Railway
Location
Connellsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1905; Replaced 1959
Railroads
- Interurban
- West Penn Railways
Design
Parker through truss
Also called
New Suspension Bridge (Misnomer at the time of construction)
Free Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.01747, -79.59284   (decimal degrees)
40°01'03" N, 79°35'34" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/620086/4430644 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Connellsville
Inventory number
BH 68335 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Beam (16,975)
Bridgemapper.com (1,325)
Built 1905 (825)
Built during 1900s (7,687)
Connellsville, Pennsylvania (7)
Curved (494)
Fayette County, Pennsylvania (86)
Interurban (1,015)
Lost (29,210)
Lost 1959 (97)
Lost during 1950s (938)
Owned by city (6,117)
 Parker through truss (1,417)
Parker truss (1,813)
Pennsylvania (6,213)
Pin-connected (4,908)
Rail-and-Road (397)
Railroad (16,551)
Replaced by new bridge (19,843)
Steel stringer (6,748)
Through truss (17,292)
Truss (36,060)
West Penn Railways (10)
Youghiogheny River (25)

Update Log 

  • April 7, 2022: New photo from Stewart Edwin Beitler
  • October 8, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • February 21, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • November 16, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • July 6, 2015: Added by Luke

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Sources 

  • Geoff Hubbs
  • Todd Wilson
  • Luke
  • Stewart Edwin Beitler - stubear0430 [at] gmail [dot] com

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