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The Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway follows PA 92 between Tunkhannock, Wyoming County and Lanesboro, Susquehanna County. The byway provides access to two railroad viaducts, the Starrucca Viaduct and the Tunkhannock Viaduct , along with the Susquehanna County Historical Society Museum and The Florence Shelly Preserve.
PA 92 continues through more forests with some farm fields and homes before reaching the New York border, where the road continues into that state as NY 79. [1] [4] Between Tunkhannock and Susquehanna Depot, PA 92 is known as the Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway, a Pennsylvania Scenic Byway. [5]
Beyond the landing, the canal turned northwest and flowed into the lake. Engineering on these projects included raising the Conneaut Lake dam by 11 feet (3.4 m) and adding another short canal to carry water to a pumping station for the Beaver and Erie. The French Creek Feeder was completed to Meadville in 1828 and reached Conneaut Lake in 1834. [4]
The Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (reporting mark BLE) was a class II railroad that operates in northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. The railroad's main route runs from the Lake Erie port of Conneaut, Ohio, to the Pittsburgh suburb of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, a distance of 139 miles (224 km). The original rail ancestor of the B ...
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.
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.
Ohio Township and New Martinsville 1975 Moundsville Bridge: WV 2 Spur / SR 872 [1] Mead Township and Moundsville: 1986 B & O Railroad Viaduct: CSX Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line Bellaire and Benwood: 1870 Bellaire Bridge (Closed, Demolition planned) Bellaire and Benwood 1926
Beaver River is a tributary of the Ohio River in Western Pennsylvania. Approximately 21 mi (34 km) long, it flows through a historically important coal -producing region north of Pittsburgh . The river is formed in Lawrence County by the confluence of the Mahoning and Shenango rivers in the Mahoningtown neighborhood of New Castle . [ 4 ]