General Information
| Completion: | 1904 |
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| Status: | out of service |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Through truss bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Railroad (railway) bridge |
| Material: |
Steel bridge |
Location
| Location: |
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA Aspinwall, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA |
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| Crosses: |
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| Coordinates: | 40° 29' 12" N 79° 54' 19" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| main span | 120.7 m |
Materials
| truss |
steel
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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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data sheet - Structure-ID
20006112 - Published on:
11/10/2002 - Last updated on:
05/02/2016
