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Lowe, Jet, creator
Title
View looking SSE by 160 degrees, toward Delaware River. Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Bridge in foreground, Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge behine. - Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad, Darby River Bridge, Spanning Darby Creek, South of Essington Avenue (State Route 291), Eddystone, Delaware County, PA
Description
Strauss Bascule Bridge Company; Bethlehem Steel Bridge Corporation; Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad; Pennsylvania Railroad; Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail); Norfolk Southern Railroad; CSX Transportation; 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; Delaware County; Eddystone
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
Accession number
HAER PA,23-EDDY,1-1
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  • Significance: Because Pennsylvania has few low-lying areas, the bridge is one of a limited number of movable railroad structures in the state, and even more rare as an overhead-counterweight bascule bridge.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N606
  • Survey number: HAER PA-526
  • Building/structure dates: 1917-1918 Initial Construction
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3734.photos.362016p
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