Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Bridge at West Falls
| Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Bridge at West Falls | |
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.jpg) Reading Railroad Bridge at West Falls, looking east toward Kelly Drive | |
| Coordinates | 40°00′23″N 75°11′33″W / 40.00639°N 75.19250°WCoordinates: 40°00′23″N 75°11′33″W / 40.00639°N 75.19250°W |
| Carries | CSX Trenton Subdivision |
| Crosses | Kelly Drive, Schuylkill River, and Martin Luther King Drive (formerly West River Drive) |
| Locale | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Arch bridge |
| Material | Stone |
| Width | two tracks |
| Longest span | 92.8 feet (28.3 m) |
| Number of spans | 9 |
| Piers in water | 6 |
| History | |
| Construction end | 1890 |
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Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge at West Falls, looking upstream from Kelly Drive.
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Bridge at West Falls is a stone and iron plate girder bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that carries two CSX Trenton Subdivision tracks over Kelly Drive, Schuylkill River, and Martin Luther King Drive (formerly West River Drive).
It was built in 1890 by the Reading Railroad, and forms a "Y" junction with the adjacent Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Schuylkill River Viaduct (1854). The bridge consists of an 80-foot (24 m) stone arch over Kelly Drive and eight plate-girder spans that follow a 6-degree curve.
See also
- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
- List of crossings of the Schuylkill River
External links
- Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-553, "Bridge at West Falls"
- Photo of Y-junction on Flickr
- Photo of freight train crossing bridge on Flickr
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