Rockville Bridge | |
|---|---|
 Rockville Bridge in 1999 | |
| Coordinates | 40°20′00″N 76°54′37″W / 40.3334°N 76.9103°W |
| Carries | 2 rail lines for Norfolk Southern Railway and Amtrak Pennsylvanian |
| Crosses | Susquehanna River |
| Locale | Just south of Marysville, Pennsylvania |
| Maintained by | Norfolk Southern Railway |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Stone masonry arch bridge |
| Total length | 3,820 feet (1,164 m) |
| Width | 52 feet (16 m) |
| Longest span | 70 feet (21 m) (48 equal spans) |
| Clearance below | 43 feet (13 m) to avg. level of rock bottom |
| History | |
| Opened | March 30, 1902 |
| Designated | April 29, 2010[1] |
| Location | |
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The Rockville Bridge is the longest stone masonry arch railroad viaduct ever built,[2] at 3,820 feet (1,160 m). It has 48 70-foot spans.[2]
The bridge crosses the Susquehanna River about 5 miles (8 km) north of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The eastern end is located in Rockville and the western end is just south of Marysville.
Completed in 1902 by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR), it remains in use today by the Norfolk Southern Railway and Amtrak's Pennsylvanian route.
The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and was designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in 1979.[3][4]
- ^ "PHMC Historical Markers Search" (Searchable database). Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
- ^ a b "National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-04-16.
- ^ "Rockville Bridge". archiplanet.org/. 2006. Retrieved 2007-01-08.
- ^ Treese, Lorett (2003). Railroads of Pennsylvania: Fragments of the Past in the Keystone Landscape. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. p. 77. ISBN 9780811726221.