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The Thirty-third Street Bridge in Philadelphia carries Thirty-third Street (U.S. Route 13) over the former course of Master Street in the Brewerytown section of North Philadelphia, near Fairmount Park. The bridge was built in 1901 with an unusual skewed arch, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The Skew Arch Bridge in Reading, Pennsylvania, also known as the Askew Bridge and nicknamed the Soap and Whiskey Bridge, is an historic skew arch bridge that was completed in 1857. Its design enabled it to carry two tracks of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad (P&R) at an angle over Sixth Street in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. [3]
Colorado Street Bridge, an example of a false skew arch. The strength of a regular arch (also known as a "square" or "right" arch) comes from the fact that the mass of the structure and its superincumbent load cause lines of force that are carried by the stones into the ground and the abutments without producing any tendency for the stones to slide with respect to one another.
Adams Avenue Bridge in Philadelphia: 1901 June 22, 1988: ... Philadelphia: Single-span stone skew arch: Trenton City/Calhoun Street Bridge: 1885 November 20, 1975:
"Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Bridge". Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion. 1 (3): 48. May 17, 1851. Steele, J. Dutton (1870). "On Skew Bridges, and on the Construction of Falls Skew Bridge over the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia". Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 1: 209–213.
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Skew arch bridges (5 P) Pages in category "Skew bridges" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Philadelphia and Reading Railroad ...