Starrucca Viaduct - Lanesboro, PA
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N 41° 57.834 W 075° 35.011
18T E 451647 N 4645932
"This was the largest stone rail viaduct in the mid-19th century"
Waymark Code: WMPE6E
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 08/16/2015
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wikipedia "Starrucca Viaduct is a stone arch bridge that spans Starrucca Creek near Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, in the United States. At the time of its construction, the bridge was thought to be the most expensive railway bridge in the world, at a cost of $320,000 (equal to $8,722,462 today). It was the largest stone rail viaduct in the mid-19th century and is still in use...It was designed by Julius W. Adams and James P. Kirkwood and built in 1847-1848 by New York and Erie Railroad, of locally-quarried random ashlar bluestone, except for three brick interior longitudinal spandrel walls and the concrete base portions of the piers and deck covering. This may have been the first structural use of concrete in American bridge construction."
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