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Title: Bridge i found on a philly site, no real ID on it
Post by: SteveG1988 on July 21, 2020, 09:58:07 PM
The website does not name it, and it is not the south street bridge....
https://www.philadelphiastreets.com/survey-and-design-bureau/bridges/


(https://philadelphiastreets.com/images/uploads/backgrounds/South_Street_1.jpg)
Title: Re: Bridge i found on a philly site, no real ID on it
Post by: NE2 on July 21, 2020, 10:53:47 PM
Real ID didn't exist until 2005.
Title: Re: Bridge i found on a philly site, no real ID on it
Post by: SteveG1988 on July 21, 2020, 11:12:20 PM
Quote from: NE2 on July 21, 2020, 10:53:47 PM
Real ID didn't exist until 2005.

Ok, that is a good one.

Anyone got an ID for this bridge tho? it may be in philly
Title: Re: Bridge i found on a philly site, no real ID on it
Post by: J3ebrules on July 22, 2020, 12:38:09 AM
There's really not much to go on other than the tracks, which makes me think it may be an old footbridge around 30th st?
Title: Re: Bridge i found on a philly site, no real ID on it
Post by: SteveG1988 on July 22, 2020, 07:29:31 AM
Quote from: J3ebrules on July 22, 2020, 12:38:09 AM
There's really not much to go on other than the tracks, which makes me think it may be an old footbridge around 30th st?

Yeah, That is the problem i am having because it looks like a neat bridge, It seems to be an Eyebar Cable stay bridge, you'd expect there to be something out there about it.
Title: Re: Bridge i found on a philly site, no real ID on it
Post by: DeaconG on July 26, 2020, 12:41:21 AM
Are you sure it's not the South Street viaduct between what's now Franklin Field (didn't get built until 1922) and the river?
Title: Re: Bridge i found on a philly site, no real ID on it
Post by: Hot Rod Hootenanny on July 27, 2020, 08:54:18 PM
If not what DeaconG wrote (that was idea as well), it may well be 34th St next to the zoo.
Title: Re: Bridge i found on a philly site, no real ID on it
Post by: J3ebrules on July 29, 2020, 07:45:51 AM
Did you try a reverse image search?
Title: Re: Bridge i found on a philly site, no real ID on it
Post by: SteveG1988 on August 16, 2020, 01:08:36 AM
Quote from: J3ebrules on July 29, 2020, 07:45:51 AM
Did you try a reverse image search?

It just went back to the page i found it on. Nothing else really shows up.
Title: Re: Bridge i found on a philly site, no real ID on it
Post by: Roadrunner75 on August 16, 2020, 02:26:28 AM
Based on this site, it looks like the 40th St. bridge:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/BSI/CABLE_ST/cable_st.html (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/BSI/CABLE_ST/cable_st.html)
Title: Re: Bridge i found on a philly site, no real ID on it
Post by: SteveG1988 on August 17, 2020, 11:00:58 PM
Quote from: Roadrunner75 on August 16, 2020, 02:26:28 AM
Based on this site, it looks like the 40th St. bridge:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/BSI/CABLE_ST/cable_st.html (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/BSI/CABLE_ST/cable_st.html)


Makes sense, was trying to place where it could have been.

https://www.philadelphiastreets.com/survey-and-design-bureau/bridges for some reason it's under the south street bridge.
Title: Re: Bridge i found on a philly site, no real ID on it
Post by: Hot Rod Hootenanny on August 31, 2020, 10:27:06 PM
Plausible that it was N. 40th Street and the bridge was over the Pennsy's Main Line, in this case, behind the Philly Zoo, near Fairmount park.
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