Juniata River Bridge
Photos
Looking south on Oriskany Road
U.S. Silica's massive operations is behind me
Photo taken by Jodi Christman in May 11, 2014
BH Photo #283488
Description
This bridge comes out of the U.S. Silica Mapleton Plant that was originally constructed between 1923 and 1924. Interesting to note is that the canal traversed east of the bridge parallel to Oriskany Road and the Juniata River.Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned warren through truss with all verticals bridge over Juniata River; Oriskany Road
- Location
- Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- History
- Built ca. 1924
- Design
- Six spans of riveted 4-panel Warren pony truss with all verticals
- Also called
- U.S. Silica Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.40489, -77.93860 (decimal degrees)
40°24'18" N, 77°56'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/250632/4476845 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Mount Union
- Inventory number
- BH 60954 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 13, 2014: New Street View added by Luke Harden
- May 13, 2014: New Street View added by J.P.
- May 13, 2014: Added by Jodi Christman
Sources
- Jodi Christman - masterofchaos [at] outlook [dot] com
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Luke
Comments
Michael,let me know if this does get done because I actually don't see it happening because of the company property at one end and the railroad tracks at the other end.I might be wrong.
I do not know of any plans, but won't it be grand to have it opened as a bike/walk/hike path.........
Thanks Michael for the information you supplied on the bridge.Are there any plans that you might know of on what might be done with the bridge?
The bridge near the U.S.Silica plant at Mapleton is an old haul road bridge from the older days when the sand plant used a fleet of smaller dump trucks to transport sandstone from various quarries to their plant.
Intact, closed, abandoned as of May 2014
does anyone know the current status of this abandoned r.r. bridge?
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/pa/huntingdon/juniata-river/
Michael,let me know if this does get done because I actually don't see it happening because of the company property at one end and the railroad tracks at the other end.I might be wrong.