[PRR-talk] Foxburg, PA

[craigmiller4 at comcast.net]

For anyone following the Foxburg bridge thread, it was demolished today.

Video and a couple of closeups may be found here:

http://www.wpxi.com/news/16977474/detail.html

http://www.historicbridges.org/truss/foxburg/ <<< sub page has detail photos

http://www.thederrick.com/stories/07242008-4022.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxburg_Bridge

http://www2.theclarionnews.com/General_News/73400.shtml

http://www.dotdom1.state.pa.us/JPA/jpaApplications.nsf/d938769e46574c648525699d00698e1b/428c07ee85ae4dcc852571300055b92b?OpenDocument <<< FHWA administration determined that the old bridge would have an 'adverse affect' on the historic district. Nobody had the inkling that a rare and unique bridge itself was an historic attraction. 

http://bridgehunter.com/pa/armstrong/foxburg/

Craig Miller




-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Donald Harper" <harperd at tamug.edu> 

> I took a digital photo last evening from the Foxburg restaurant that shows most 
> of the span. Anyone wanting a copy, contact me off list. 
> 
> Don Harper 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: prr-talk-bounces at dsop.com on behalf of Derrick Brashear 
> Sent: Sun 6/22/2008 9:38 AM 
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> Subject: Re: [PRR-talk] Foxburg, PA 
> 
> http://prr.dementia.org/places/avrr/ are the pictures I took a few years 
> back. 
> 
> Wish I'd gotten to see it when the trains still ran over it. 
> 
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