Landscape view showing the first Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown Railroad (later Philadelphia & Reading Railroad) bridge completed in 1833 over the Wissahickon near a waterfall. A train comprised of an engine, two crowded passenger coaches, i.e., trucks, and a freight car cross the Town lattice truss bridge. The neighboring Robeson's Mill is visible in the right foreground. Cows graze near the creek on which a group of ducks swim. Bridge razed in 1844. Ithiel Town patented his lattice truss design in 1820., Probable printer supplied by Wainwright, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 632, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 7 R 131