Skew Arch Bridge Blair County PA
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- The ODD to SEE oblique arch in Duncansville, Blair County PA. The Skew Arch Bridge and Incline Plane 6 - Allegheny Portage Rail Road.
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Great history lesson.
In addition to the Screw Arch, at the base of the incline plane on old Rte 22 heading down into Duncansville is the Muleshoe Bridge. The stone bridge spanning old Rte 22 was part of the Pennsylvania RR Muleshoe bypass from the Gallitzen Tunnels down to Duncansville (area called Foot of Ten) and on to the old Hollidaysburg PRR railroad yard. At the base of the mountain, now old Rte 22, the PRR made a "horseshoe" bend, thus called muleshoe.
At the Muleshoe, the lower incline station is marked with NPS signs. The old railroad bed now serves a grass access road for the State Game Lands (SGL 198) along the mountain. The old Muleshoe Bypass snakes along the contour of mountain and numerous cuts for gentle grade up the mountain. The game land road ends where the power lines cross the current Rte 22 highway. The main railroad line between the Gallitzen Tunnels and Horseshoe Curve can be seen across the Sugar Run gap. People should stay on the path as part of it directly above Rte 22. The entire Muleshoe Bypass thru the game land forest is visible on the the Google maps satellite view.
Your map notes Healy Road just across old Rte 22 at the Screw Arch. Healy Road passes near the end of the Muleshoe bypass at the power lines.
edit: Just below Tunnelhill on Sugar Run Road was the old Muleshoe bypass. The steel trestle exiting the Portage Tunnel (track 1 eastern tunnel) allowed the mainline trains to cross above the bypass track which connected to the Gallitzen Tunnel east portal.
Thanks you for the contribution.
Great intro. Im a volunteer at the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site. The road running past the skew arch bridge was the initially the Huntington Cambria and Indiana turnpike built in 1818. The turnpike was none to happy to have the Portage as competition and when the initial bridge was built across the railroad it did not meet with the satisfaction of the turnpike commissioners. The commissioners had legal documents stating right of way should not conflict with traffic. So the initial bridge was torn down and the new bridge was constructed in a skewed manner to make traffic flow over the bridge. Incline 6 which is located partially below the bridge was almost 1/2 mile long as most inclines on the railroad where. Anyway great story always like to have it shared and to get the message out to everyone. Thanks.
THANK you for that information. Like I state in all my videos, lots of information gets kept out of the public eye and is not readily available. Also, as I am sure you have run into, some "historic society" information is not released or crazy enough, has a fee attached and also comes with the opinions of society members who did not dig deep enough or validate their information (I SEE THAT A LOT). I try to keep it as true to FACT and keep a large amount of citation information with cross references. The Skew Arch was VERY difficult to find good information on that went back far enough. Thank you again, James for giving us more insight. :)
Great Video! ROCK ON!!!
Thanks! Will do!
If you do the 1889 flood, don't forget to go to Grandview Cemetary. I love history, especially local history.
Based on later comments... I see you saw I hit the Grandview. :)
does it have a hole?
Only the one in the video... anything else would probably be filled with water. But there ARE holes in that area that I hope to eventually get into.
The skew arch is a amazing artitech artifact. If you drive a few miles down the road there is another underpass that has the same unique right angle stone cutting. Also right before it there is the lost grave of the alleghenies. Which since I was young my pap said they found the body of a man and buried him alongside of the road. See what you can find I'd be so interested to see the story. Your adventures are so interesting keep up the good work.
THANK YOU... I need to hit that when I go back out for Lemon house and Power house. The Lemon house isn't all that great unfortunately. So I figured I will wait until spring to do those stories and maybe put them together. But... another cool bridge :D (I just saw another one that is STILL active across the Juniata river along Rt. 453).
Hi sir, thank you for the information. I have an assignment about the skew bridge, and I want to make a conclusion from the information you give me "This bridge was originally built in 1832 for route 22 to cross rail line 6, and was built perpendicular at first. , however, because the bridge is made straight it makes it difficult for the horse cart to turn because the horse cart carries about 6-8 horses, so the bridge has to be tilted 45 degrees so that the horse cart can cross the bridge. " If there is a word wrong, you can correct it, or maybe you can add it, sir, please correct it, sir, thank you
Looks accurate. :)
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there is and old turnpike bridge for wagon near by down by reservoir
That will be in a future video. That one is called "Muleshoe Bridge" and is part of the lesser known SECOND railroad horseshoe curve called "Mulseshoe Curve" on the 6 to 10 trail at the Muleshoe Dam of the Holidaysburg Reservoir ;)
@@ODDySEEy they are very close to each other if you need a guide let me know I am retired
@@bobairhart8175 that would be cool. So there is even another one hidden over there? Interesting. Nothing showed on LIDAR. I even know where the foundations that were reburied are at thanks to LIDAR.
I just watched your piece on Prince Gallitzen/Father Gallitzen, and commented. I was about to ask if you knew about the Canal, but I see you did. You have a new subscriber! Thank you! Do you know about the South Fork dam disaster? Keep up the good work. I grew up in Johnstown and moved to Pittsburgh in the 80's after a flood. Charles Dickens rode the canal himself.
Thanks for joining the team :D
love the intro! i also enjoy the history you had researched going into this video. great work! ill be following your adventures!
Thank You... the research is 1/3 of my fun. 1/3 is seeing the research when I am on site. 1/3 is finding NEW things or experiencing something new. And 0.3333333333 repeating is actually rendering the final video LOL. Can you RELATE?
Ima have to check this one out. Never seen this bridge before and I traveled 22 right past this several times. Thanks for the content.
I am happy to bring it to you :) The travelling past things is what got me hooked into doing this when I was a "road warrior" for a large tech firm. I needed something outside of the hum of miles of road.