File:Perspective overview of Brunot's Island Bridge, looking ENE from west bank of Ohio River. - Ohio Connecting Railway, Brunot's Island Bridge, Spanning Ohio River at Brunot's Island HAER PA,2-PITBU,74-1.tif

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Perspective overview of Brunot's Island Bridge, looking ENE from west bank of Ohio River. - Ohio Connecting Railway, Brunot's Island Bridge, Spanning Ohio River at Brunot's Island, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
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Lowe, Jet, creator
Title
Perspective overview of Brunot's Island Bridge, looking ENE from west bank of Ohio River. - Ohio Connecting Railway, Brunot's Island Bridge, Spanning Ohio River at Brunot's Island, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, PA
Description
Becker, Max J; Bland, J C; American Bridge Company; Drake and Stratton Company; Seaboard Construction Company; Duquesne Light Company; Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad; Ohio Connecting Railway; Pennsylvania Railroad; Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway; Pittsburgh, Chartiers and Youghiogheny Railroad; Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail); Norfolk Southern Railroad; DeLony, Eric N, project manager; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, sponsor; Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), sponsor; Spivey, Justin M, historian; Lowe, Jet, photographer
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Allegheny County; Pittsburgh
Date 1999
date QS:P571,+1999-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,2-PITBU,74-1
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The bridge is significant for its complexity, carrying rail traffic in four directions across the Ohio River on a system of high viaduct spans and through trusses. Innovative methods were used to erect the main channel span in 1890, and to replace it in 1915. When completed, the Parker through truss was the world's longest riveted simple truss span.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N579
  • Survey number: HAER PA-509
  • Building/structure dates: 1889-1890 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1903 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1913-1916 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3715.photos.361918p
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