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Inwood Iron Bridge

Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

Photos 

Side view

Photos taken June 2007 by Kent Findley

BH Photo #109105

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Through truss bridge over Swatara Creek on TR 575
Location
Lebanon County, Pennsylvania
Status
Closed to all traffic
History
Built 1899 by the Pittsburg Bridge Co. and Nelson & Buchanan; rehabilitated 1960
Builders
- Nelson & Buchanan Co. of Chambersburg & Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Pittsburg Bridge Co.
Design
Pennsylvania through truss
Dimensions
Total length: 162.1 ft.
Deck width: 15.8 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Also called
Inwood Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.47725, -76.52319   (decimal degrees)
40°28'38" N, 76°31'23" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/370888/4481843 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Indiantown Gap
Inventory numbers
PA 38 7215 0575 3007 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
PANBI 22889 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 31169 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of May 2018)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Imminent Failure (1 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 18 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

19th Century (7,568)
Built 1899 (396)
Built during 1890s (2,984)
Closed (2,665)
Have street view (26,947)
Lebanon County, Pennsylvania (48)
NR-eligible (4,051)
Nelson & Buchanan Co. (26)
One-lane traffic (7,606)
Owned by county (20,783)
 Pennsylvania (5,319)
Pennsylvania truss (489)
Pin-connected (3,901)
Pittsburg Bridge Co. (3)
Steel grate deck (450)
Stone Abutments (85)
Through truss (15,065)
Total length 125-175 feet (5,920)
Truss (32,788)

Update Log 

  • July 8, 2020: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
  • July 10, 2018: Updated by Royce and Bobette Haley: Added categories "Stone Abutments", "Steel grate deck"
  • March 3, 2017: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
  • March 2, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
  • May 13, 2012: Updated by Jodi Christman: Corrected GPS
  • September 17, 2010: New photos from Jodi Christman
  • September 27, 2007: Posted photos from Kent Findley

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Inwood Iron Bridge
Posted September 28, 2019, by Patrick S. O'Donnell (1 [dot] 991km [at] comcast [dot] net)

In the process of being saved and relocated to a small park nearby about a football field away.

https://lebtown.com/2019/07/26/historic-inwood-bridge-off-th...

Inwood Iron Bridge
Posted July 16, 2014, by ArtS (asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com)

Possibly getting restored:

http://www.ldnews.com/local/ci_26159048/inwood-bridge-restor...