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Cobbs Creek Footbridge

Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Photos 

Cobbs Creek Footbridge

Photo from gophilly

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #489242

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Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Lenticular pony truss bridge over Cobbs Creek on Footpath
Location
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and Delaware County, Pennsylvania
Status
Open to pedestrians only
Builder
- Berlin Iron Bridge Co. of East Berlin, Connecticut
Design
Lenticular pony truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.95188, -75.25164   (decimal degrees)
39°57'07" N, 75°15'06" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/478504/4422447 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 92005 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Berlin Iron Bridge Co. (179)
Delaware County, Pennsylvania (90)
Have street view (27,123)
Lenticular pony truss (89)
Lenticular truss (169)
Open to pedestrians (4,280)
 Owned by city (5,542)
Pennsylvania (5,348)
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (220)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (203)
Pony truss (16,303)
Truss (33,113)

Update Log 

  • January 22, 2021: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added type and builder.
  • January 22, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs

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Comments 

Cobbs Creek Footbridge
Posted January 22, 2021, by Nathan Holth (webmaster [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Thanks Geoff, its fixed now!

Cobbs Creek Footbridge
Posted January 22, 2021, by Geoff Hubbs (geoffrey [dot] hubbs [at] att [dot] net)

The later post is the correct location, I'll try to delete the first one.

Cobbs Creek Footbridge
Posted January 22, 2021, by Nathan Holth (webmaster [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Wow, it appears this extremely rare lenticular pony truss has slipped under the radar all these years!