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Skew Bridge PA1696

Regarded best example of Skew Bridge in U.S. Designed by Richard Osborn for the P & R Railroad in 1857. Each course of the arch of 40 feet is laid in ellipsoidal curve, each stone properly curved. There is no keystone.

N6th Stat railroad bridge, Reading. Berks County Pennsylvania.


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