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Companies consolidated into American Bridge Company # Company name Headquarters 1 Keystone Bridge Company: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 2 Wrought Iron Bridge Company: Canton, Ohio: 3 Berlin Iron Bridge Company: Berlin, Connecticut: 4 Pencoyd Iron Works: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 5 Union Bridge Company: Athens, Pennsylvania: 6 Groton Bridge ...
American Bridge Company was founded in April 1900, when J.P. Morgan & Co. led a consolidation of 28 of the largest U.S. steel fabricators and constructors. [2] The company's roots extend to the late 1860s, when one of the consolidated firms, Keystone Bridge Company , built the Eads Bridge at St. Louis , the first steel bridge over the ...
This 86.5-foot-long (26.4 m), 18.66-foot-wide (5.69 m), Howe truss bridge was built in 1855. It was renovated by the Works Progress Administration in 1939, and by the city of Philadelphia in 2000. [2] It is the only remaining covered bridge in Philadelphia and is the only covered bridge in a major US city.
Since then, crews have been working around the clock to get the bridge rebuilt, and the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration is pouring $3 million in emergency funds ...
The Chestnut Street bridge over Interstate 95 and Columbus Boulevard at Penn's Landing will close on January 15 as part of the Central Access Philadelphia project.
In 2012, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter proposed to return the bridge to service as a part of the Schuylkill River Trail, a bike trail. [9] Under the proposal, the bridge would be raised some 33 feet (10 m) so that boats — in particular, a towboat used to bring oil barges to the Trigen power plant upstream — could pass without swinging ...
Ambridge was incorporated in 1910 - named after the American Bridge Company which had significant operations along the Ohio River opposite the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company. The need for a bridge was beyond doubt and long overdue as the towns of Ambridge and Woodlawn, which had populations in the hundreds at the turn of the 20th century ...
The original South Street Bridge was a crumbling bridge dating back to 1920. From 2003 to until its closure in 2009, pieces of the eroding bridge concrete would fall into the Schuylkill River and onto the Schuylkill Expressway. The original bridge was completely torn down and replaced by November 6, 2010. [2]