Philadelphia And Reading Railroad, Bridge At West Falls

The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Bridge at West Falls is a stone and iron plate girder bridge that is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It carries two CSX Trenton Subdivision tracks over Kelly Drive, Schuylkill River, and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive (formerly West River Drive).

History and notable features

This was built in 1890 by the Reading Railroad, and forms a "Y" junction with the adjacent Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, Schuylkill River Viaduct (1854).What M'Leod Did for the Reading
" Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', April 30, 1893, p. 7 (subscription required).

The bridge consists of an stone arch over Kelly Drive and eight plate-girder spans that follow a 6-degree curve.

See also

* List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Pennsylvania
* List of crossings of the Schuylkill River

Gallery

File:Phila Bridge at West Falls01.png, Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge, West Falls, looking upstream from Kelly Drive

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Bridges completed in 1890
Bridges in Philadelphia
CSX Transportation bridges
Railroad bridges in Pennsylvania
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Bridges over the Schuylkill River
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Iron bridges in the United States
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