New York Railroads

Starrucca Viaduct
Bridge of Stone
Lanesboro, PA
Photographs by Tom Trencansky

 


Starrucca Viaduct in Lanesboro, PA is 1040 feet long, 100 feet high and 25 feet wide gracefully crossing over Starrucca Creek on its seventeen stone arches.  The stone was cut from a local quarry and is Pennsylvania Bluestone.  Designed by Julius Walker Adams, an Erie Railroad superintending engineer, the viaduct was built between 1847-48 under the supervision of James P. Kirkwood, completed on November 23, 1848 , though the first locomotive did not cross it until December 9th. The cost of the structure was less than $340,000.  More than 150 years later, it still carries full-size modern freight trains of Norfolk Southern and NYS&W.

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