Jersey Bridge

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Coordinates: 41 ° 36'55 "  N , 79 ° 39'27"  W.

Jersey Bridge
Drake Well Bridge
Jersey Bridge Drake Well Bridge
Convicted SR 1011
Subjugated Oil Creek
place Cherrytree Township , Pennsylvania, USA
Entertained by PennDOT
Building number NBI # 601011001014800
construction Pratt-Truss steel truss bridge
overall length 42.7 m
width 10.1 m
vehicles per day 816 (2008)
completion 1882/1998
planner Morse Bridge Company
location
Jersey Bridge (Pennsylvania)
Jersey Bridge

The Jersey Bridge is a einstreifige truss bridge made of steel , which the Oil Creek in the Cherrytree Township in Venango County , Pennsylvania crossed into the United States. It connects Titusville with the Drake Well Museum and Oil Creek State Park . The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It was replaced by a modern new building in 1998, although the structure of the old bridge was used.

history

The original Jersey Bridge was built in 1882 by the Morse Bridge Company, the predecessor of the Youngstown Bridge Company . The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) set a weight limit of 10 short tons (around 9,100 kg) for the bridge in 1979 due to the deteriorating condition  . On June 22, 1988, the structure was entered with other bridge structures in Pennsylvania on the National Register of Historic Places . In 1997, the structure was replaced to meet the safety requirements of the State Department of Transportation on the one hand and to enable coaches to travel to the Drake Well Museum on the other . At the start of construction, during which the only access road to the museum was interrupted, it had to close on November 2, 1997, but it was reopened in April 1998 after an agreement with the Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad was reached who ran this one station at the museum and transported tourists from Titusville there. The renewed Jersey Bridge was opened to traffic on May 27, 1998.

design

Photograph of the bridge from 1982

When the bridge was rebuilt in 1998, the structure of the old Jersey Bridge was used, but the load-bearing substructure is a modern girder bridge. The framework structure with parallel chords joined with rivets was retained for the construction . The bridge still has only one lane, but a pedestrian walkway has been added on one side outside of the previous structure.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Federal Highway Administration : State: PA, Place Name: Oilcreek (Township of), County: Venango, NBI Structure Number: 601011001014800 ( English ) In: National Bridge Inventory . Nationalbridges.com (Alexander Svirsky). 2010. Retrieved July 25, 2011. Note : This is a web-scraping version of the official PennDoT data at PA10.txt ( English ) Federal Highway Administration. 2010. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b G. A. Rapp, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation: Bridge in Cherrytree Township ( English , PDF; 369 kB) In: Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form . Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission . August 13, 1982. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
  3. ↑ a b c Jim Carroll: Unique Bridge Opens in Titusville (English) . In: Erie Morning News , May 27, 1998, p. 11B. 

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