Jersey Bridge (Cherrytree Township, Pennsylvania)
41.615277777778 - 79.6575Koordinaten: 41 ° 36 ' 55 "N, 79 ° 39' 27 " W
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SR 1011
Oil Creek
The Jersey Bridge is a steel truss bridge einstreifige that the Oil Creek Pennsylvania crosses in Cherrytree Township, Venango County, in the United States. It connects Titusville with the Drake Well Museum and Oil Creek State Park. The building was added in 1988 in the National Register of Historic Places. It was replaced in 1998 by a new, modern building, although the construction of the old bridge was used.
History
The original Jersey Bridge was built by the Morse Bridge Company, the predecessor company of the Youngstown Bridge Company, in 1882. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation ( PennDOT ) increased in 1979 due to the deteriorating condition of a weight limit of 10 tons short ( about 9,100 kg) for the bridge fixed. On 22 June 1988, the building with other bridges in Pennsylvania was entered in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1997 the building was replaced, on the one hand satisfy the security requirements by the Department of Transportation of the State to do and on the other hand coaches to allow the drive to the Drake Well Museum. At the beginning of the construction work, while the was stopped at the museum is the only access road, this had to disassemble on November 2, 1997 close, but could be reopened in April 1998 after it came to an agreement with the Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad, after the operation that one station to the museum and transported tourists from Titusville from there. The renewed Jersey Bridge was released on on 27 May 1998 for traffic.
Design
When the bridge was rebuilt in 1998, was used, although the structure of the old Jersey Bridge, but the load-bearing substructure is a modern beam bridge. For the construction of the assembled with rivets parallel-chord truss structure was preserved. The bridge still has only one lane, but on one side of a walkway for pedestrians has been cultivated outside of the former structure.