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Columbia Railroad Bridge may be a 1920 concrete arch bridge in City of Brotherly Love, Pennsylvania that carries CSX capital of New Jersey Subdivision rail lines over the Schuylkill stream. It’s placed in Fairmount Park, upstream from the Pennsylvania Railroad Connecting Bridge. It’s conjointly referred to as Columbia Bridge.
The first bridge was erected by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1834. It had seven spans, and was made of white pine as a span for the City of Brotherly Love & Columbia Railroad.[2] A simple machine on the bridge’s side player the railway cars up dirt track Hill by cable. The City of Brotherly Love & Reading Railroad bought this bridge from the state in 1851.
The second bridge was erected in 1886 by the Reading Railroad to hold the more and more serious freight traffic. It absolutely was a 2 track iron Pratt span, in commission till 1920.
The current bridge was completed in 1920 with 2 tracks, and 2 a lot of were extra in 1921, however currently there ar solely 2 tracks on this bridge. Simply upstream of the bridge is that the Schuylkill Grandstand, bleachers for athletics contests, and also the sculpture of Olympic athletics champion, John B. Kelly.
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