Depicts a locomotive crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge over the Schuylkill River near Girard Avenue. Wooden scaffolding supporting a new Pratt truss flanks both sides of the bridge over the main channel of the river. The Pratt truss, which could hold heavier train loads, replaced the old Whipple truss in October of 1897., Title supplied by cataloguer., The Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, completed in 1867 after the designs of P.R.R. Chief Engineer John A. Wilson, served as the first connecting railway between Philadelphia and New York City., Gift of Albert L. Doering.
Creator
Doering, William Harvey, 1858-1924, photographer
Date
ca. 1897
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department lantern slides - Doering [P.9453.27]
