Glenwood Bridge 1894 - Bridges and Tunnels of Allegheny County and Pittsburgh, PA

1928 photo, view upstream

Elevation drawing looking downstream

Penn Bridge Co. photo, view upstream

OFFICIAL NAME:
Glenwood Bridge

OTHER DESIGNATION:
pghe590-12x

LOCATION:
Pittsburgh

USGS 7.5" Topo Quad - UTM Coordinates:
Pittsburgh East - Zone 17; 0590 4472

CARRIED:
motor vehicles, 2 lanes; street railway
PA885

BETWEEN:
-- Second Av (Glenwood) on right descending bank of Monongahela River
-- East Carson St, Eighth Av [Riverton St], and Haysglen Rd (Hays) on left descending bank of Monongahela River

CROSSED:
-- (RDB to LDB) B&O RR Pittsburgh-Cumberland, B&O RR Glenwood Yard, Monongahela River at mile 5.9, Union RR, PLE RR, East Carson St, PRR, Riverton St

TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION / DESIGN:
4 camelback spans, sub-divided Pratt through truss

LENGTH OF MAIN SPAN:
525 ft

TOTAL LENGTH (including longest elevated ramp):

HEIGHT OF DECK:

YEAR ERECTED / ENGINEER:
1894, replaced 1966
Penn Bridge Co., Beaver Falls, PA
T. S. White, chief engineer
C. H. Vaughn, constructing engineer
C. M. Emmons, estimator and designing engineer

ADDITIONAL INFO:
Replaced by 1966 Glenwood Bridge.

Squared stones, possibly from the substructure of the previous bridge, are found in large piles along the north bank upstream from the present bridge. The 1894 bridge was a Pittsburgh Railways street car bridge which had a wooden floor to allow motor vehicles to cross also. It was a pin-connected Pennsylvania through truss.

This was near the location of the Six Mile Ferry.

The Penn Bridge Company was founded in 1866 by T. B. White, a designer and builder of wooden bridges. By 1908 the company had built four bridges over the Ohio River, five over the Monongahela and two over the Allegheny. (The history does not specify which.) Penn Bridge also constructed the original Ohio Rivers dams Nos. 2, 4, 5, and 6.

FIELD CHECKED:
25-May-2000

INFO SOURCES:
White and von Bernewitz; Pittsburgh Gazette Times, "Story of Pittsburgh and Vicinity", 1908

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