tunkhannock bridge

This tall, concrete arch bridge is worth seeing at least once. We spent about 10 minutes there, positioning our car multiple ways to see it from different perspectives.

Every year,the town of Nicholson has a street festival, called bridge days. The street is shut down, and there's lots of good food, crafts, music and raffles. Also some cute shops as well. We have gone twice so far, and we will probably make it a new tradition. Check it out next year!! You also have a beautiful view of the viaduct.

Worth a detour in any weather except fog. Great views from the west on road 11 and from the east on road 1031.

vy a duck? vy not a goose?It's a brilliant archetectural structure on a massive scale; bonus if you are a railroad buff.Explore Nicholson; it will not take very long; but stop and visit. It has character

For train, bridge, engineering and architectural buffs, this is a sight well-worth visiting.Located in the Endless Mountains portion of Pa, Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct (also known as the Nicholson Bridge) is a concrete deck arch bridge that spans the Tunkhannock Creek in Nicholson, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. It was the largest[concrete bridge in the U.S. when it opened in 1915, and remained so even 50 years later.The bridge contains about 163,000 cubic yards of concrete and 1,250 short tons of steel. It is 2,375 feet long and 240 feet tall when measured from the creek bed (300 feet tall from the bedrock). The bridge was built as part of the Nicholson Cutoff, which was part of a project of the Lackawanna Railroad to replace a winding and hilly route. This rerouting was built between Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Binghamton, New York. All 13 piers were excavated to bedrock, which was up to 138 feet below ground level. Almost half of the bulk of the bridge is underground.Construction on the bridge began in May 1912, and dedication took place on November 6, 1915, with the opening of the Nicholson cutoff. The workforce involved some 500 men, most of them unskilled laborers. Legend has it that several laborers died when they fell into the wet concrete and their bodies are entombed in the structure. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1977. Today, the bridge is owned by the Canadian Pacific Railway and is used daily for regular through freight service, including those of the Norfolk Southern.Since 1990, the local community has celebrated the building of the bridge on the second Sunday of September with "Nicholson Bridge Day", a street fair, parade, and other activities – delightful and welcoming community.This site is a short but scenic drive from Binghamton NY to Nicolson, Pa. and when you round a curve, an enormous historic concrete bridge appears overhead, looming out of the trees. Drive further and you reach the town and the bridge portion spanning the Tunkhannock Viaduct. Park your car and watch for a while and you’ll see the trains crossing the bridge, so high that they look like toys!