Crosses Susquehanna River Opened 1924 Body of water Susquehanna River | Design Concrete arch bridge Bridge type Arch bridge Carry Norfolk Southern Railway | |
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Carries Norfolk Southern Railway Locale Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Maintained by Norfolk Southern Railway Location Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Similar Susquehanna River, Cumberland Valley Railroad, John Harris Bridge, Market Street Bridge, Walnut Street Bridge | ||
The Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge carries Norfolk Southern rail lines across the Susquehanna River between Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Some of its concrete piers encase stone masonry piers from an earlier truss bridge on this site, completed in 1891 by the Philadelphia, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh Railroad, which was then acquired by the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad to connect its Harrisburg and Lurgan lines. The current structure was constructed from 1920 to 1924 by replacing the trusses with concrete arches one track at a time. The bridge has fifty-one concrete arches, three more than the nearby Rockville Bridge.
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