Crosses Susquehanna River Bridge type Arch bridge | Opened 1885 Body of water Susquehanna River | |
Locale (ruins) Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Location Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Similar Philadelphia & Reading Railroad, Susquehanna River, John Harris Bridge, Cumberland Valley Railroad, M Harvey Taylor Memorial | ||
The South Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge would have carried the South Pennsylvania Railroad rail lines across the Susquehanna River between Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Work began on the South Penn and was abruptly halted by banker J. P. Morgan in 1885 when he called a truce in the railroad wars that threatened to undermine investor confidence in the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads. Eight piers still rise from the water at the west side of the river near the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge.
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