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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]
Adams Avenue Bridge in Philadelphia: 1901 June 22, 1988: ... Philadelphia: Single-span stone skew arch: Trenton City/Calhoun Street Bridge: 1885 November 20, 1975:
A masonry skew arch bridge photographed shortly after its completion in 1898, showing the helicoidal nature of its stonework. Sickergill Skew Bridge over the River Raven at Renwick, near Penrith. A skew arch (also known as an oblique arch) is a method of construction that enables an arch bridge to span an obstacle at some angle other than a ...
"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.
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.
Skew Arch Bridge, Spanning Incline No. 6 of Allegheny Portage Railroad: Extant Stone arch: 1833 1987 US 22 (former) Incline No. 6 of Allegheny Portage Railroad: Cresson: Cambria: PA-246: Stone Creek Bridge I: Extant Stone arch: 1850
Skew Arch Bridge (Reading, Pennsylvania) Swin Bridge; T. Thirty-third Street Bridge in Philadelphia This page was last edited on 20 September 2024, at 09:55 (UTC). ...
A skew arch bridge, a masterwork of cut stone construction, is another feature of the site near the Lemon House. The bridge is 60.4 feet (18.4 m) long on the south elevation, 54.9 feet (16.7 m) long on the north elevation, and 22.2 feet (6.8 m) high. [17] It was the only bridge on the line that was built to carry a road. [17]