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Johnstown Abandoned Bridge

Johnstown Abandoned Bridge

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Most Recent Visit To Bridge: August 2007

Key Facts
Bridge Name Facility Carried / Feature Intersected Location Structure Type Construction Date / Builder or Contractor
Johnstown Abandoned Bridge Abandoned Over Stonycreek River Johnstown: Cambria County, Pennsylvania Metal Pinned Pratt Through Truss, Stationary 0 By: Unknown

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The five panel bridge has lightweight truss members like a highway truss bridge, but it has large floor beams and two large deck stringers lined up on the deck like it was intended to serve a railroad. Perhaps this bridge served a light rail system? The deck itself is gone as well as the roadway leading up to the bridge, leaving this bridge's identity a mystery. Concrete abutments, the remains of a grade separation, are located next to this bridge, which would have carried the facility this bridge served over what is a non-motorized trail today.

One of the bridge's two spans is missing, perhaps destroyed in one of Johnstown's floods.

The bridge's bottom chord was altered when the bottom chord was detached from the pin and welded onto plate steel at the connections.

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