Rating:
2 votes
Inwood Iron Bridge
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
- Pittsburgh Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Design
- Pennsylvania through truss
- Dimensions
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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
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
Related Bridges
- Inwood Iron Bridge Park (Parts reused in)
Sources
- Kent Findley - kent [dot] findley [at] gmail [dot] com
- Jodi Christman - masterofchaos [at] outlook [dot] com
- Lebanon Daily News - Aug. 7, 2015
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Inwood Iron Bridge
Possibly getting restored:
http://www.ldnews.com/local/ci_26159048/inwood-bridge-restor...
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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...