Safe Harbor Trestle

Safe Harbor Trestle
Coordinates 39°55′31″N 76°23′03″W / 39.92528°N 76.38417°W / 39.92528; -76.38417
Carries Rail
Crosses Conestoga River
Locale Conestoga Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Owner Norfolk Southern Railway
Characteristics
Design Lower: Deck girder.
Upper: Pratt truss.
Material Steel
Total length Lower: 295 feet (90 m).
Upper: 300 feet (91 m).
Height 55 feet (17 m); 92 feet (28 m) (between lower & upper bridge)
History
Designer William H. Brown (PRR)
Constructed by H.S. Kerbaugh, Inc.
Fabrication by Pennsylvania Steel Company
Construction end 1905
Opened 1906
Rebuilt 1930
Safe Harbor Trestle
Location in Pennsylvania

The Safe Harbor Trestle also known as the Safe Harbor Bridge, Port Road Bridge and the Enola Low Grade Line (A&S Railroad) Steel Trestle is a steel deck truss trestle that spans the Conestoga River at Safe Harbor, Pennsylvania near the Susquehanna River for the Port Road Branch and the former Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad along the Susquehanna River. It was built in 1905 for the Atglen and Susquehanna Branch (A&S), also known as the "Low Grade Branch", of the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR).[1]

There are two more bridges at this site, the Norfolk Southern Railway Port Road Bridge and the Safe Harbor Dam access road bridge. The lower span was raised 4 feet (1.2 m) in 1930, concurrent with the construction of the Safe Harbor Dam. In 1976 the PRR lines became part of Conrail, which abandoned the A&S branch in 1989. The tracks were removed from the upper bridge in 1990.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. PA-531, "Pennsylvania Railroad, Safe Harbor Bridge, Spanning mouth of Conestoga River, Safe Harbor, Lancaster, PA", 11 photos, 5 data pages, 1 photo caption page


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