Rockville Bridge

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The Rockville Bridge, at the time of its completion in 1902, was, and still remains, the longest stone masonry arch railroad bridge within the World. Created between 1900 – 1902 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it’s xlviii 70-foot spans, for a complete length of three,820 feet (1,164 m).The bridge crosses the Susquehanna regarding five miles (8 km) north of state capital, Pennsylvania. The japanese finish is in Rockville and therefore the western finish is simply south of Marysville.
The original bridge on the spot opened on Sept one, 1849, once the PRR began operational over it. The Northern Central Railway began to use it once abandoning their Marysville Bridge. This bridge was designed by Italian laborers, United Nations agency worked for 2 contractors (Drake & Stratton), one on the side of the Susquehanna and one on the west. Native individuals from the state capital space additionally worked on the bridge. For many of its life the bridge carried four path tracks. They were reduced to a few within the Nineteen Eighties once the PRR path was modernised across Pennsylvania. Within the late Nineteen Nineties Associate in Nursing intermodal instrumentation was blown off Associate in Nursing intermodal railroad train and landed within the watercourse prompting Norfolk Southern to reconfigure the track layout, terminating the wye track to Enola at the West End of the bridge. This reduced the quantity of path tracks to 2, however left a buffer zone on either aspect to forestall more containers ending up within the watercourse, though high winds from the outward December 2010 North yankee blizzard resulted in an exceedingly similar outcome on December twenty seven, 2010. Currently, the bridge is employed by the Norfolk Southern Railway and Amtrak. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

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