File:ELEVATION, FROM SOUTH. - Connecting Railway, Reading Railroad Overpass, Amtrak Northeast Corridor, just north of Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA HAER PA,51-PHILA,717-1.tif

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ELEVATION, FROM SOUTH. - Connecting Railway, Reading Railroad Overpass, Amtrak Northeast Corridor, just north of Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
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National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak)
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), sponsor
Title
ELEVATION, FROM SOUTH. - Connecting Railway, Reading Railroad Overpass, Amtrak Northeast Corridor, just north of Schuylkill River, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Description
Wilson, John A; Seabrook, Thomas; Connecting Railway; Pennsylvania Railroad; National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak); Philadelphia and Reading Railroad; DeLony, Eric N, project manager; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, sponsor; Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), sponsor; Spivey, Justin M, historian; Elliott, Joseph E, B, photographer
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Philadelphia County; Philadelphia
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER PA,51-PHILA,717-1
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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: This overpass, one of the early grad-separation structures on Philadelphia's Connecting Railway retains its original brick arches, which are rarely found on U.S. railroads. The bridge is located in Farimount Park.
  • Survey number: HAER PA-550
  • Building/structure dates: 1866-1867 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1912-1915 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3760.photos.362239p
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
Object location39° 57′ 07.99″ N, 75° 09′ 51.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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