Wilmington and Western Railroad (CH30) was owned by the Baltimore and Ohio starting in 1883. This iron bridge was hauled in from the B&O's Wheeling, West Virginia, division, where heavier locomotives had made it obsolete, and today it is an extremely rare example of a Pratt through truss still carrying railroad traffic. Wrought-iron members are connected by pins and eye bars.
W. Barksdale Maynard, "Pratt Truss Bridge", [Wilmington, Delaware], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DE-01-CH34.
Buildings of Delaware, W. Barksdale Maynard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, 79-79.
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