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Brilliant Branch Railroad Bridge

General Information

Completion: 1904
Status: out of service

Project Type

Structure: Through truss bridge
Function / usage: Railroad (railway) bridge
Material: Steel bridge

Location

Location: , , ,
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Crosses:
  • Allegheny River
Coordinates: 40° 29' 12" N    79° 54' 19" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

main span 120.7 m

Materials

truss steel

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Brilliant Branch Railroad Bridge is a truss bridge that carries Allegheny Valley Railroad's Brilliant Branch across the Allegheny River between the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Highland Park and Aspinwall, Pennsylvania.

History

The Brilliant Branch, along with the Port Perry Branch along the Monongahela River was built by the Pennsylvania Railroad as part of a bypass of the narrow tracks around Downtown Pittsburgh. After the collapse of the Penn Central Transportation Company (the PRR's successor company) in 1976, the Brilliant Branch was abandoned. In 1995, they were purchased by the fledgling Allegheny Valley Railroad and in 2003, the Brilliant Branch Bridge was reopened. It generally served one train per day in each direction.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Brilliant Branch Railroad Bridge" and modified on July 23, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

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  • About this
    data sheet
  • Structure-ID
    20006112
  • Published on:
    11/10/2002
  • Last updated on:
    05/02/2016
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