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Sunbury Toll Bridge
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Sunbury Toll Bridge
Photo from Sunbury end looking west, ca. 1920
Photo uploaded by Alexander D. Mitchell IV in January 2012
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BH Photo #281529
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Parker through truss bridge over Susquehanna River on Banbridge Street and Sunbury & Selinsgrove Electric Railway
- Location
- Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, and Snyder County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge 1927
- History
- Built 1905-1907 by York Bridge Co. for Sunbury Bridge Co., opened to road traffic Oct. 5, 1907; demolished 1927
- Builders
- - Sunbury Bridge Co.
- York Bridge Co. of York, Pennsylvania
- Railroads
- - Interurban
- Sunbury & Selinsgrove Electric Railway (S&SER)
- Design
- Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 169.0 ft.
Total length: 2,370.0 ft. (0.4 mi.)
- Also called
- Bainbridge Street Bridge (Older)
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.85465, -76.80594 (decimal degrees)
40°51'17" N, 76°48'21" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/347781/4524191 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sunbury
- Elevation
- 450 ft. above sea level
- Inventory number
- BH 52293 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 23, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- December 30, 2020: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: added opening date
- November 18, 2019: New photo from Ben Williams
- December 27, 2016: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- September 21, 2015: New photo from Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- April 12, 2014: New photos from Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- March 9, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Sunbury & Selinsgrove Electric Railway", "Interurban", "Susquehanna River"
- April 30, 2012: Added by Alexander D. Mitchell IV
Both this bridge and its successor were called the Bainbridge Street Bridge. Bainbridge with an "i".