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Pennsylvania Railroad, Pickering Creek Trestle, Spanning Pickering Creek, south of Buckwalter Road, Pickering, Chester County, PA

Pennsylvania Railroad, Pickering Creek Trestle, Spanning Pickering Creek, south of Buckwalter Road, Pickering, Chester County, PA

description

Summary

Significance: The trestle is significant as a high trestle with both horizontal and vertical curvature.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N596
Survey number: HAER PA-521
Building/structure dates: 1883 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1897 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1913 Subsequent Work

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Carnegie Steel Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail)
Norfolk Southern Railroad
DeLony, Eric N, project manager
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, sponsor
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), sponsor
Spivey, Justin M, historian
Lowe, Jet, photographer
place

Location

Village of Pickering Run40.00102, -75.80691
Google Map of 40.0010204, -75.8069082
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Source

Library of Congress
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