East Bloomsburg Bridge

The East Bloomsburg Bridge was a bridge in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It carried the traffic of Pennsylvania Route 487, which is known as Ferry Road at that point. The bridge crossed the Susquehanna River. It was built in 1894 and torn down in 1987. The East Bloomsburg Bridge is on the Historic American Engineering Record and the Historic American Buildings Survey, as of 1992.
The East Bloomsburg Bridge was 1,150 feet long. Prior to its demolition and reconstruction, the bridge was made up of six pin-connected through truss spans. Each of these spans is 190 feet long. Each of the spans consisted of ten panels that were each 19 feet long. The panels were made of wrought iron and steel. The pins on the bridge were made of steel. The floor of the bridge was made of 2.5-inch oak. The original design of the bridge was such that it could support a static load of 732 pounds per linear foot and a rolling load of 1,440 pounds per linear foot. The bridge's original weight limit was 13 tons, but this was later decreased to 10 tons. Shortly before its demolition, the bridge had two lanes of 8.25 feet . It had a clearance of 16 feet at the beginning of the bridge and 16.92 feet at the center.

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