Banning Railroad Bridge

Banning Railroad Bridge
View from the Yough River Trail
Coordinates	40.1239°N 79.7480°W / 40.1239; -79.7480
Carries	Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway
Crosses	Youghiogheny River
Locale	Perry Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Characteristics
Design	truss bridge
Total length	1,582 feet (482 m)
Width	28 feet (8.5 m)
History
Opened	1930
Location

The Banning Railroad Bridge is a structure that carries the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway across the Youghiogheny River in Perry Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

The bridge was constructed in 1930 by the American Bridge Company as part of the major railroad to be built in Pennsylvania. Like the Speers Railroad Bridge along the same route, the structure uses a "K-truss" design that is extremely uncommon outside of the Great Plains states. Although once part of a critical connection between the Pittsburgh industrial region and the Western Maryland Railroad, today the bridge sees light traffic and is mainly used for the transportation of coal.

External links

• Historic Bridges
• Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad history Archived 2019-02-16 at the Wayback Machine