The Pittsburgh and Shawmut Railroad hauled coal over eighty-eight miles from Brockway in Jefferson County to Freeport in Armstrong County. In southwestern Jefferson County, a pair of 142-foot-high viaducts between the small towns of Coolspring, Markton, and Sprankle Mills are joined by the Coulter Tunnel. Sprankle Mills' steel viaduct is 1,430 feet long and is best seen from PA 3014.
Lu Donnelly et al., "Sprankle and East Branch Viaducts and Coulter Tunnel", [Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-JE14.
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 468-468.
If SAH Archipedia has been useful to you, please consider supporting it.
SAH Archipedia tells the story of the United States through its buildings, landscapes, and cities. This freely available resource empowers the public with authoritative knowledge that deepens their understanding and appreciation of the built environment. But the Society of Architectural Historians, which created SAH Archipedia with University of Virginia Press, needs your support to maintain the high-caliber research, writing, photography, cartography, editing, design, and programming that make SAH Archipedia a trusted online resource available to all who value the history of place, heritage tourism, and learning.
