Easton & Northern Railroad, Lehigh River Bridge, Spanning Lehigh River, Easton, Northampton County, PA
Summary
Significance: This structures is significant for its highly complex geometry, with skew trusses carrying trucks on a reverse curve. It possesses a remarkable degree of integrity for a 19th century steel truss bridge on a freight railroad.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N623
Survey number: HAER PA-540
Building/structure dates: 1896-1899 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Schall, F E
Union Bridge Company
Terry & Tench Construction Company
Easton & Northern Railroad
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail)
DeLony, Eric N, project manager
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, sponsor
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), sponsor
Spivey, Justin M, historian
Elliott, Joseph E, B, photographer
Location
West Easton, 40.68843, -75.22073
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html