Kralltown Road Bridge
Description
FROM THE 1996-2001 PENNSYLVANIA HISTORIC BRIDGE SURVEY: The single span, 153'-long, double intersection Pratt thru truss bridge built in 1884 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Co. is listed in the National Register (6/22/88). There have been no significant changes in the bridge's status since the previous survey. Some alterations were noted but they appear to predate 1988. The bridge has welded splices at the counters, impact damage to at least one vertical, and cover plate welded to the flanges of the floorbeams.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Bermudian Creek on PA 4017 (Kralltown Road)
- Location
- York County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1884 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Co.
- Builder
- - Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio
- Design
- Whipple through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 149.9 ft.
Total length: 152.9 ft.
Deck width: 13.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.5 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1988
- Also called
- Bermudian Creek Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.00861, -76.96306 (decimal degrees)
40°00'31" N, 76°57'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/332449/4430558 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Wellsville
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 590
- Inventory numbers
- PA 66 4017 0030 0000 (Pennsylvania Bridge Management System number)
NRHP 88000817 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
PANBI 44149 (Pennsylvania BRKEY bridge number on the 2011 NBI)
BH 31855 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of October 2017)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 98.7 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- March 9, 2014: HAER photos posted by Dave King
- December 26, 2011: Updated by Jodi Christman: Added description and other details
- March 1, 2011: New photo from Jodi Christman
- February 21, 2011: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Replaced with new cement bridge
Sources
- Daniel Hopkins - chimera [at] clovermail [dot] net
- Jodi Christman - masterofchaos [at] outlook [dot] com
- HAER PA-469 - Kralltown Road Bridge, Spanning Bermudian Creek at Kralltown Road (State Route 4017), Kralltown, York County, PA
Comments
I also noted that the company that designed the replacement bridge... and who likely conducted the rehabilitation feasibility analysis for the historic bridge during Section 106... has absolutely no experience rehabilitating historic metal truss bridges, based on their portfolio. Hiring firms that lack a deep and varied portfolio of successfully rehabilitating historic metal truss bridges to conduct rehabilitation feasibility analysis for metal truss bridges has been a repeating problem in Pennsylvania.
Tony,
In response to your question about the Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), I would compare their role in the process to that of an ant telling a steamroller to stop rolling toward it. PHMC advocates for preservation during the Section 106 process, but in my observation they have little more power over PennDOT than the average citizen.
Sad...but likely true.
Like a county hysterical society here in Indiana that wouldn't step up to save a 120+ year old abandoned Whipple truss from senseless destruction by the worthless county commissioners...because they were afraid they would lose their share of the casino revenues.
It's likely one of those agencies or groups that is the opposite of what it says it is. Political moves. Obfuscate wildly. Up is down, Yes means no, Historical means ready to bulldoze over, etc.
Probably because bridges have nothing to do with the american revolution so they don't care about it.
Pennsylvania has a Historic Commission?
Where the HELL are they hiding while all the state's HISTORIC bridges are being obliterated??
Just saw the replacement UCEB
http://www.centuryeng.com/BenatecTransSR4017.html
I'm sorry but I don't see how engineers think this is a successful solution.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/pa/york/664017003000000/
Apparently relocated here in 1923, I am not convinced without seeing the evience:
https://www.facebook.com/westmanchestertwphistoricalsoc/
Copied from the link: We recently had to move a plaque that was stored after it was donated 15 years ago. At the time it was donated they weren’t sure if it came from bridge over the Little Conewago between Shiloh and Weiglestown at Neiman’s Mill, or it was from the bridge on Kralltown road. After some research we found out the Bridge at Neiman’s Mill build in 1884 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company was moved to Kralltown Road in 1923. A cement bridge replaced it at Neiman’s Mill. Red arrows on the picture point to the plaques, picture at Neman’s Mill @1900.