North Hyndman Bridge, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad spanning Wills Creek, Hyndman, Bedford County, PA

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TITLE:
North Hyndman Bridge, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad spanning Wills Creek, Hyndman, Bedford County, PA

CALL NUMBER:
HAER PA,5-HYND,2-

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]

MEDIUM:
Photo(s): 2 (5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 2 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 1

DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.

CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator

NOTE:
Survey number HAER PA-358

Building/structure dates: 1916 initial construction

Significance: This bridge was built by the King Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio, one of the nation's leading nineteenth-century bridge manufacturing concerns. King Bridge was one of the few large bridge building companies to survive the merger movement of 1900-01 when the giant American Bridge Company, a subsidiary of the U.S. Steel Corporation, was formed. The B&O's bridge at Wills Creek is likely one of the last King Bridge Company spans erected in Pennsylvania.

SUBJECTS:
PENNSYLVANIA--Bedford County--Hyndman
railroad bridges
transportation
railroad companies

COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.pa3204

CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
GENERAL VIEW OF PORTAL
DETAIL OF NAMEPLATE; IT READS: "BUILT BY KING BRIDGE COMPANY, CLEVELAND, O., 1916"

CONTROL #:
PA3204

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