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Starrucca Viaduct is a stone arch bridge that spans Starrucca Creek near Lanesboro, Pennsylvania, in the United States.Completed in 1848 at a cost of $320,000 (equal to $11,268,923 today), it was at the time the world's largest stone railway viaduct and was thought to be the most expensive railway bridge as well.
Key attendees were Queen Elizabeth II, Vice President Richard Nixon and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. [8] [9] In 1972 a tanker, the MV Venus, exploded while transiting the lock. [10] On June 18, 2015, the cruise ship Saint Laurent collided with the lock, causing it to be drained, and closed for almost two days. [11] [12] [13] [14]
Tri-States Monument, where New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania meet. In the background, Interstate 84 crosses between NY and PA just north of the monument. The New York–Pennsylvania border is the state line between the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. It has three sections:
A Guidebook to Historic Western Pennsylvania (2d ed.). Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 256– 271. ISBN 978-0-8229-3630-5. Wilkinson, Norman B. (1979). Land policy and speculation in Pennsylvania, 1779-1800: a test of the New Democracy. The Management of public lands in the United States. New York: Arno Press. ISBN 978-0-405-11357-4
The DL&W built the viaduct as part of its 39.6-mile (63.7 km) Nicholson Cutoff, which replaced a winding and hilly section of the route between Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Binghamton, New York, saving 3.6 miles (5.8 km), 21 minutes of passenger train time, and one hour of freight train time.
The firm of Barry, Betta & Led Duke of Albany, New York won the award for the new bridge at a cost of $2,492,687 and that the award would be official in April 1991. Construction would begin soon after the approval. [26] PennDOT's funding arrived in May 1991 at the total of $2 million. [27] The new bridge opened on July 24, 1992. [2]
The New York–Pennsylvania Joint Interstate Bridge Commission, or simply the Joint Interstate Bridge Commission, is an interstate agency jointly owned by the states of New York and Pennsylvania. The commission was formed in 1919 by the two states to manage the crossings of the Delaware River that connected them. [ 1 ]
The route crosses the Pennsylvania–New York border north of Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. A four-lane freeway through the Steuben County town of Lindley, I-99 crosses through a rock cut, making a large bend to the north and bypassing the hamlet of Presho. The freeway enters a partial cloverleaf interchange with County Route 5 (CR 5; Smith Road).