South Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania)

The South Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge was a proposed structure that would have carried the South Pennsylvania Railroad rail lines across the Susquehanna River between Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Work began on the South Penn and was abruptly halted by banker J. P. Morgan in 1885 when he called a truce in the railroad wars that threatened to undermine investor confidence in the Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads.^[1] Of the twenty three piers originally built,^[2] eight piers still rise from the water at the west side of the river near the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Bridge.^[3][4]

South Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge
Coordinates	40.2493°N 76.8834°W / 40.2493; -76.8834
Crosses	Susquehanna River
Locale	(ruins) Cumberland County, Pennsylvania and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Location

See also

• List of crossings of the Susquehanna River

References

1. Harrisburg Area Riverboat Society (November 29, 2006). "Bridges on the Susquehanna River". harrisburgriverboat.com. Archived from the original on December 16, 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-29.
2. "The Piers Finished". The Chronicle. 7 November 1884. Retrieved 28 October 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
3. "The End of the Line-Literally – Harrisburg Magazine". harrisburgmagazine.com. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
4. Harwood, Herbert H. (2010). The railroad that never was: Vanderbilt, Morgan, and the South Pennsylvania Railroad. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35548-5.