[PRCo] Columbia, PA

Daria Phoebe Brashear shadow at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 11:45:00 EST 2016


On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Which Columbia - Wrightsville bridge were you looking for?   The covered
> bridge which was burned to keep the Confederates from crossing the river in
> the Civil War?


The one that was destroyed by a storm in ~1896, as it happened.


> The steel railroad bridge (also used as a highway bridge between trains …
> the Pennsy got the tolls) … ceased to be used about 1958 and torn down
> about 1962?   The replacement highway bridge, aka the Inter-County bridge
> built in 1930 and still there (route 30, now route 462) … shows as a link
> in tony segro's webside that you sent?   Or today's four lane US 30
> bridge?   As far as I know, the first three were all built on the same
> stone piers and they are still there.
>
>

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Daria Phoebe Brashear
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