Crosses Monongahela River Clearance above 46 feet (14 m) Opened 1904 Location Pittsburgh Body of water Monongahela River | Piers in water 2 Total length 458 m Longest span 247 m Material Steel | |
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Locale Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Design cantilever through truss (removed) piers: rusticated stone Closed 1946 (closed to traffic)
1948 (removed) Similar Monongahela River, Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal, Point Bridge, WD Mansfield Memorial, Panhandle Bridge | ||
The Wabash Bridge was a railroad bridge across the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh. Constructed between 1902 and 1904 by railroad magnate George J. Gould for his Wabash Pittsburgh Terminal Railway.
History
The terminal and warehouses were destroyed by fire in 1946 and the bridge was demolished in 1948 after years of neglect. The steel from the bridge was used in the construction of the Dravosburg Bridge in 1948.
Two piers remain in place today, the only remnants of the bridge still in place at the original site.
The Wabash Tunnel, which carried the railroad through the hills south of the Monongahela River, sat abandoned for more than 50 years before reopening to one-way auto traffic in 2004.
References
Wabash Bridge (Pittsburgh) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA