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The viaduct extends from Vandever Avenue, on its east end (a location on the railroad known as LANDLITH interlocking), across the Brandywine Creek and then roughly parallel to the Christina River through Wilmington Station. The west end of the viaduct is adjacent to the Alban Park neighborhood of Wilmington, an area also known as West Yard.
The Brandywine Valley Railroad (reporting mark BVRY) is a class III railroad operating in Pennsylvania. It was established in 1981 by the Lukens Steel Company to operate trackage at Coatesville, Pennsylvania and the neighboring town of Modena. It was acquired, with the rest of the Lukens properties, by Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1998. [1]
The first predecessor of the Wilmington and Northern to be organized was the Wilmington and Brandywine Railroad, chartered in Delaware on March 5, 1861. [2] It was to build from the Christina River at or near Wilmington to the state line in the direction of Parkesburg, Pennsylvania, with the power to consolidate with a connecting railroad in Pennsylvania from Parkesburg, Coatesville, or ...
The construction and replacement project has started on the Route 91 bridge over the Brandywine Creek tributary near Yours Truly restaurant.
The Coatesville High Bridge is a stone masonry arch railroad viaduct that crosses the valley of the West Branch Brandywine Creek at Coatesville, Pennsylvania.Built by the Pennsylvania Railroad between 1902 and 1904, it has ten arches (eight of 78 feet (24 m) and two of 88 feet (27 m)) and spans a total length of 934 feet (285 m), with wing walls extending it to 1,287 feet (392 m). 78 feet (24 ...
Brandywine Creek [1] [2] (also called the Brandywine River) is a tributary of the Christina River in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware in the United States.The Lower Brandywine (the main stem) is 20.4 miles (32.8 km) long [3] and is a designated Pennsylvania Scenic River with several tributary streams.
At Birdsboro, the line turned south, eventually picking up the West Branch Brandywine Creek and following it into Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and an interchange with the Pennsylvania Main Line. From Coatesville, the line continued south to Wilmington, Delaware, where it interchanged with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. [1]
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