Where are the trains, planes, trucks, and autos? Oh, it's around 1930.
There's no catenary yet, in fact the trackage below would not see its first
electric train until 1935. That's US 1 above, and the B&O main line in
the distance; both bridges were replaced when PRR widened to three or four
tracks. The bridge in the distance was named Winans Arch.
The shack on the right, here north of the US 1 bridge, was PRR's Winans
Station. The original grade crossing had been near the photographer,
which is why a 1915 atlas puts Winans Station on the south side
of US 1. Through that period the station remained in the same location,
instead it was the road that had moved.
US 1 would move again during the late 1930s when it was rebuilt north of
this span, roughly where the original grade crossing had been. As of
2021 that bridge was still on duty, with concrete-embossed dates of 1936
and 1979; this 1936 date represents the start of construction, rather than
completion since aerial photos from April 1938, show the former bridge
here still in use.
Where PRR had four tracks, the outer ones were generally
designated for freight and the inner ones for passenger trains.
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1931
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