About Starrucca Creek Bridge
The Jefferson Railroad, chartered in 1864 with the goal of constructing a line between Carbondale, Pennsylvania . 1 The line was financed and constructed by the Erie Railroad in 1869-72. The Delaware & Hudson Railway (D&H) gained trackage rights over the route as an important connection to Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, later becoming part of their Penn Division.
The bridge over Starrucca Creek was replaced in 1904 with a quadrangle lattice through truss. A parallel plate girder bridge was added in 1929.
In the early 1980s, the D&H purchased the former Erie Lackawanna Scranton to Binghamton mainline and diverted all through traffic off of the Penn Division between Carbondale and Brandt just east of Lanesboro in 1982. 1
The abandoned c. 1904 Starrucca Creek Bridge was renovated for use by pedestrians, cyclists, and horseback riders along the Delaware & Hudson Rail Trail in 2019-20. The project was funded by the PA Recreational Trails Program, Federal Highway Administration and the state Bureau of Recreation and Conservation. 2
Structure
Dimensions & Classification
| Structural Form | Through Truss — Other |
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Sources & Citations
References for this location, in MLA format.
- “Starrucca Viaduct.” American-Rails.com, 2020. ↗
- “Interpretative signage.”
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