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High Bridge (Coatesville, Pennsylvania) : ウィキペディア英語版 | High Bridge (Coatesville, Pennsylvania)
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 and two of ) and spans a total length of , with wing walls extending it to . high, the bridge was built to accommodate four standard gauge railroad tracks, with a total length of .〔 The Pennsylvania Railroad's Main Line passes along the north side of Coatesville on the southern slope of the North Valley Hills. The bridge carries the Main Line across the water gap cut by the Brandywine, as well as the former Wilmington and Northern Branch of the Reading Railroad and Pennsylvania Route 82. ==Precursors==
The first bridge at the site was built by the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad in 1832. It was a single-track wood span on stone piers. The bridge was widened to double-track in 1854.〔Messer, p. 109〕 This bridge was replaced by a cast iron bridge in 1867, and that in turn by a wrought iron Pratt truss in 1890.〔Messer, p. 111〕 By around the start of the 20th century, however, the double-track bridge was proving to be a bottleneck in the quadruple-track main line on both sides, and plans were made for a bridge that would carry four tracks across the Brandywine Valley.〔Messer, p. 112〕
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