File:Detail, view, underside of half-through girder span over entrance to scrap yard at western end of trestle. Note that abutment is slightly skewed. - Pennsylvania Railroad, French HAER PA,15-PHOEN,3-6.tif

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Lowe, Jet

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Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail)
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Detail, view, underside of half-through girder span over entrance to scrap yard at western end of trestle. Note that abutment is slightly skewed. - Pennsylvania Railroad, French Creek Trestle, Spanning French Creek, north of Paradise Street, Phoenixville, Chester County, PA
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Leonard, H R; Phoenix Bridge Company; American Bridge Company, Pencoyd Plant; Pennsylvania Railroad; Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail); Norfolk Southern Railroad; DeLony, Eric N, project manager; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, sponsor; Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), sponsor; Spivey, Justin M, historian; Lowe, Jet, photographer
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Chester County; Phoenixville
Date 1999
date QS:P571,+1999-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,15-PHOEN,3-6
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: With its sixteen plate-girder spans of various ages, is an excellent example of American railroads' practice of recycling main-line structures into branches and sidings.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N593
  • Survey number: HAER PA-519
  • Building/structure dates: 1891-1892 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1898 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1901 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1914 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1923 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3725.photos.361985p
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Object location40° 07′ 49.01″ N, 75° 30′ 55.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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