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Moving Transformer over Thompson Run Road and Bridge

June 3, 1969

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Moving Transformer over Thompson Run Road and Bridge
  • Title
  • Moving Transformer over Thompson Run Road and Bridge
  • Creator
  • Allegheny County Department of Public Works; Photographer: Pennetti
  • Date
  • June 3, 1969
  • Identifier
  • 20100001-hpicnpl-1320
  • Source Identifier
  • DPW Thompson Run Road 1969001 DPW #78117
  • Description
  • View of construction vehicles on Thompson Run Road looking northeast in Ross Township, Allegheny County, PA. Onlookers watch as several trucks move a transformer across Bridge #1 of the South branch of Pine Creek. The transformer weighed 135 tons the rig 81 tons for a total of 216 tons. A platform can be seen spanning the bridge as well as beams and boards on either side of the bridge to protect the bridge and roadway. On the right North Hills Christian Church can be seen.
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Ross (Allegheny County, Pa : Township)
    Automobiles
    Churches
    Construction
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Ross Township
  • Source
  • Allegheny County Department of Public Works
  • Contributor
  • Northland Public Library
  • Collection
  • Northland Historical Image Collection
  • Rights Information
  • Copyright Not Evaluated. The copyright and related rights status of this Item has not been evaluated. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.
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