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  • How safe is this to walk on? I would be scare to walk.

  • we have a bridge which looks just like this in my town, i will shoot a video tomorrow. everyone check it out!

  • don't worry video maker I'm sure a life will be along any minute if your quick you should be able to grab it .until then maybe you could find a nice pile of stones to film .

  • @blobby273 Why are you on this video? your on youtube judging people why this person just found a great piece of history. How about you go outside and actually look at something meaningful.

  • @blobby273 What a miserable comment mate. Is your life not doing well. Its OK man, there is always hope and people to help. Like yourself. Be nice to someone and see how good it makes you feel. Go on. Give it a go.

  • @utuberine I LOVE YOU XXX ;)

  • @utuberine your right I feel on top of the world now .I am going to go out now and spread the love .

  • @blobby273 There ya go mate. Feels good eh? And ya made my day too. Now how can we get the world to do this? Lets see. If we had a worldwide network we could all......

  • @utuberine lol sorry I think they have us out numbered last person that tried to change the world with nothing but love got nailed to a cross for all his effort but we can but try .

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  • Run Forrest, Run !!

  • Cool video but I don't think I would be walking on that thing...It looks like its better days are behind it...But still cool video...

  • My grandparents live up near Bedford PA in the mountains. We used to go on hikes and we would find fossils of sea creatures everywhere. Strange stuff.

  • i was down there and it is really cool im trying to get back there i never seen the secound one

  • Interesting stuff - Thanks for the commentary :)

  • Loved it. It looks very beautiful, I love finds like this. Wooded areas are bad ass especially for interesting stone sculpted architecture. You should keep going and see if it leads somewhere else. I would definitely jump down there and run the 'bayou' or what its called in Pennsylvania. What is it called in pennsylvania? A river shute?

  • lol where I live (victoria bc.) I only know of the foundation of an abamdon house that is near a golf course. And an aboandon barn that is supposedly haunted

  • COOL !!!

  • Very interesting commentary & footage! Thanks for posting!

  • thanks for posting history,.......100 years from now someone will be watching this video and glad you did

  • sounds like that guy from dual survival

  • Pretty cool... thanks for posting. Loving seeing this stuff.

  • @machetou you are shit, go back to your FAKE video games , who asked you anyway..go piss up a rope

  • The Holmesburg section of Philly has the OLDEST Stone arch bridge(i think) in Amerika..Believe it or not, there was a toll gate keeper who actually lived in a home at the bridge, in the 1700's, and there was a toll for your carriage/horses/whatever..I'll send you a link to this theqman.more facts on your way..just had a 13 hour workday, please excuse my ineptitude I"m just frigin exhausted..keep up the good work..

  • Off the East coast of England, at Whitby (Where Dracula landed as a Dog) is the wreck of one of the first Concrete Barges........yes, a Concrete Boat. It's called Ferroforcement, couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it........

  • i live in cleveland and theres concrete dumps by my house and if u climb down there theres a huge valley and when you go through it you find these gigantic water tunnels and they have 1912 on them, the ledges for them completely fell away but i managed to do some awesome graffiti inside them 6 years ago

  • Such an important part of history, in its own way. Left there, forgotten for the most part. At one point in time this bridge was a big deal. Interesting thought.

  • YAY I LIVE IN PA TOO!!! I'LL HAVE TO VISIT THIS PLACE SOMETIME!

  • I live in PA, and I honestly think there is more abandon shit than anywhere else. Just around my house alone there are abandon, strip mines, foundries, caverns, bridges ect.

  • @RazorHeadMetal they don't call it the rust belt for nuthin!

  • @RazorHeadMetal I agree more in the mountain area though.

  • @RazorHeadMetal I know, don't you just love it here.

  • @RazorHeadMetal. Explore them all.

  • @RazorHeadMetal It's True I use to live near Oil City and there were all kinds of abandon oil factories and refineries with a 15 mile radius, it was cool but now I live in Vegas

  • @RazorHeadMetal come to new orleans on the outskirts. whole blocks abandoned after katrina. businesses , homes, factories, even abandoned six flags park.

  • Very nice job  Thank you

  • Now thats a piece of history, like the oldest railway bridge in the world, of which I have a video on my channel, it was stabalised, that's what they need to do with athat :o)

  • thats nuts i live right up in Latrobe and never knew this

  • very coo video thank you!

  • Interesting video, I must make a video of the worlds first plastic road bridge - it's at Westmill near Swindon in the UK - next to the Westmill Wind Farm. A plastic brodge is very easy to crane in to place. It's 5 meters long and the local military school drove a tank over it at the invitation of the builders on the day it opened.

  • Excellant work brother.

  • The oldest STEEL re-inforced concrete bridge in the US is in Rock Rapids IA. I live 3 blocks from the park where it was moved to after it was retired from use. I don't know exactly where it was at originally, but I do know it was built in 1894.

  • @yardtechbrando thanks for your insights! 

  • Way cool! I love finding stuff like that on my woods walks. I found an old railroad turntable once. Thanks for sharing!

  • Stuffthatsgone - Great Site!

    

  • what happened to the actual track?

  • @TheBalanceOfBass was removed for scrap once line closed. approximately 1950. All track was removed, plus the steel trestles along the way, for scrap.

  • @TheBalanceOfBass ..china bought it for rebar.

  • Rally

  • Good for you, goin' on an adventure! There aren't enuf opportunities to do that anymore.

  • i actaly new that about the bike wird

  • long walk

  • @d0uglaslaws0n no Trolley bridges in the line were made of concrete...that is what makes it rare. They were all trestle

  • That bridge looks in great condition for a 100 year old bridge thats had no maintainence

  • So cool!

  • Welsh Mountain Railways were miles better

  • @zagreus101 exactly boyo :)

  • Another great horse back trail...

  • Looks like the concrete worked !!! lol

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  • I was from PA in my past life!

  • I'm fascinated by abandoned railways - but also saddened. In Southern Ontario, where I live, the land is crisscrossed with abandoned rights of way, many turned into hiking trails (nice gentle grades!). I imagine railways are being abandoned in the US too, in favour of trucking. Such a loss.

  • @deino117 Where I live in western Maryland, there are quite a few abandoned rail lines. One near my town still has the grades, but sadly the last train station still standing on that line was allowed to deteriorate until it was demolished last year due to severe neglect. Another line was made into a rail trail, and our town restored its old trolley station several years ago (the last one standing-yay!). Oh, to bring trains back!

  • @dragondancer1814 Where do you live in Western Maryland? My grandfather worked on the Western Maryland Railway for about 40 years.

  • @clintonearlwalker I live in Boonsboro, Maryland. It's about 7 miles east of Hagerstown, and two miles west of the Appalachian Trail. My husband and I spent five years living in Hagerstown, and I joke that you can't go anywhere in that city without driving over, under, or across at least one set of tracks. However, I've been crazy about trains all my life, and I do miss them since we moved.

  • @dragondancer1814 I know roughly where Boonsboro is, I live about 20 miles south of Cumberland MD, near Keyser WV. My sister lives in Baltimore, I worked in Hagerstown for about 1 year.  Her little 4 year old boy is OBSESSED with trains. He's always telling me about "steamers", "diesels" and he got to ride in the cab of a bullet train. Anyway, thanx for you info, Cheers!!

  • @clintonearlwalker I've been the same way all my life. My maternal grandmother lived near the tracks that ran through her town, and every time we heard a train horn when visiting, we'd all go rushing out to the end of the block to see it. My husband and I were married on the Walkersville Southern tour train over in Frederick County, and that was terrific fun! My kids now actually yell at me if I get to stop for a train while in Hagerstown without them!

  • @dragondancer1814 I always liked trains as a kid but not like my nephew, his mom won't let get anymore toy trains, there whole house is covered with them. Mainly had diesels around here, I remember as a kid the pointed nose that stuck out on some engines, I thought there was something important in there maybe a connection to mission control. An engineer took me up in the cab once and opened a little door that went in the nose. It was a nasty little cramped toilet. I've ridden Cass Scenic RR.

  • That's really cool to see! I live in Hopwood and my paternal grandfather was born in Allison!!!!!!!

  • @theqman1956

    Yes and it was then not used again for hundreds of years until the 19th/early 20th century - especially for commercial use.

  • theqman1956 you are great. history is the best!

  • i enjoy your videos. i too am facinated with brownsville and the local history there. i recently found a bottle marked mon rye wisky and found sam thompsons distillery. kept me entertained for weekends

  • sounds like the guy from dual survival

  • Too bad the track is gone. =-(

  • Fascinating and kind of scary with no side rails.

  • @Redskin1040 Sorry ...the "new" referred to the trolley companies attempt to use concrete over traditional trestle design... wrong emphasis.

  • @theqman1956 Ok. I hope my comment didn't come accross as haughty. I was just surprised to hear concrete was considered a "new" building concept in the U.S. in 1912. I enjoy your videos.

  • @Redskin1040 nah..like concrete I have thick skin...I delete the ones that annoy me :-) thanks and spread the word!

  • The northeast is so rich in history. Unlike central Florida where overdevelopment has erased most things over 60 years old.

  • I'm not sure if your only into Railroads or other things that are gone as well, but the California/Brownsville area's are full of old bridges and even some other things that may be of interest to you.

  • Awesome! It needs to be on bridgehunter. :)

  • isnt 1912 the sinking of titanic????

  • you are correct sir, hopefully he meant the 'new' technique of using reinforcing bars within the concrete

  • you should come to south east PA alot of stuff like this

  • :-) Must be part of some western Pennsylvania accent to say West Penn like "west pin," lol...We don't say that in Philly. :P

  • Right. You say Soda....:-)

  • @theqman1956 Of course, cuz that's what it is. :D

  • @theqman1956 I'm from Pittsburgh, but I still call it Soda. :P

  • @Gaeilgeoir you are a long way from home!

  • Good job, and great narration.

  • well for the USA, everything i s new....

  • looks like the road from Compressiontown to JPEG City. informative though.

  • modern concrete, rebarr and such.

  • probably the modern concrete

  • In case you are interested, there are 2 abandoned concrete trolley bridges ( c. 1911 ) of the Boston Elevated Railway in the Middlesex Fells Reservation in Stoneham, Mass. It is possible to see one of them on Google street view ( put the yellow man icon just after the W on FellswayW and scan around )

  • 5***** from Germany!

  • Excellent video- just imagining a center-door car rolling along down the tracks. I'm sure glad that I am not the only one who tries to find old trolley right of way for fun. I personally like finding bits and pieces of Pgh. Railway's Washington Interurban. FYI: the PA Trolley Museum is looking to begin its restoration of West Penn Curve Side Car 832 in earnest in 2009.

  • thats awsomeee!!!! wow im deffinetly going to check out that web site

  • Rt 166 And Davidson Siding Rd, about 50 yards in next to the house

  • I live in West Brownsville. Where is that trail at? I've lived here for years now, been all over the damn place and haven't seen that bridge yet.

  • 35 years of exploring western pennsylvania and a few good old maps!

  • cool, how do you find this stuff? Its really interesting.

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