Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Bridge, Allegheny Islands State Park
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The Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Bridge is a truss bridge that carries the Canadian National Railway's Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad division across the Allegheny River between the Pittsburgh suburbs of Plum and Harmar Township, Pennsylvania. In 1897, a single-track trestle and viaduct was built on this site; in 1918, the original piers were doubled in width, the current double-tracked structure built alongside, and then slid into place. The original north trestle approach was buried in slag dumped from an adjacent temporary filling trestle. ()
Opened: 1918 (106 years ago)Length: 2327 ftCoordinates: 40°32'17"N, 79°49'16"W
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Allegheny Islands State Park
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