The Ohiopyle Highway Bridge is a structure that carries two lanes of

Pennsylvania Route 381 Pennsylvania Route 381 (PA 381) is a state highway located in Fayette, and Westmoreland counties in Pennsylvania. The southern terminus is the West Virginia state line near Elliottsville, Pennsylvania, where it continues as Preston County Rou ...

Youghiogheny River The Youghiogheny River , or the Yough (pronounced Yok ) for short, is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 tributary of the Monongahela River in the U.S. s ...

in Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania The span, which opened in 1975, is the third to be located in the vicinity. An original 19th-century covered bridge was replaced by a Pratt truss bridge around 1900. Because of a low-clearance underpass located directly adjacent to its southern approach, this structure proved to be obsolete once the automobile replaced the train as the primary method of tourism in the years following

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. Although already scheduled for replacement, the discovery of a major fatigue crack sealed the fate of this structure, leading the way for the present

girder bridge A girder bridge is a bridge that uses girders as the means of supporting its deck. The two most common types of modern steel girder bridges are plate and box. The term "girder" is often used interchangeably with "beam" in reference to bridge de ...

to be erected.

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Nat'l Bridge InventoryStructural Report
Bridges in Fayette County, Pennsylvania Bridges completed in 1975 Bridges over the Youghiogheny River Girder bridges in the United States Road bridges in Pennsylvania {{Pennsylvania-bridge-struct-stub

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