File:Detail view of truss end bearings, with students from Susquehanna College seated on concrete base for stringers. - Pennsylvania Railroad, Selinsgrove Bridge, Spanning Susquehanna HAER PA,55-SELI,2-13.tif

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Detail view of truss end bearings, with students from Susquehanna College seated on concrete base for stringers. - Pennsylvania Railroad, Selinsgrove Bridge, Spanning Susquehanna River, south of Cherry Island, Selinsgrove, Snyder County, PA
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Lowe, Jet

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Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail)
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), sponsor
Title
Detail view of truss end bearings, with students from Susquehanna College seated on concrete base for stringers. - Pennsylvania Railroad, Selinsgrove Bridge, Spanning Susquehanna River, south of Cherry Island, Selinsgrove, Snyder County, PA
Description
Brown, William H; A. and P. Roberts; Pencoyd Bridge and Construction Company; Cofrode and Saylor, Engineers and Bridge Builders; Pennsylvania Railroad; Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail); Norfolk Southern Railroad; Sunbury and Lewistown Railroad; Schuylkill and Juniata Railroad; Susquehanna College; 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; Snyder County; Selinsgrove
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,55-SELI,2-13
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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 surviving lightweight wrought-iron Pratt trusses of two different designs. Over the west channel, 12 spans have unusual subdivided end panels; over the east.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N637
  • Survey number: HAER PA-554
  • Building/structure dates: 1888-1892 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1925 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1930 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3766.photos.362292p
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Object location40° 47′ 56″ N, 76° 51′ 45″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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