Rough video of the final few seconds of 80-year old bridge.
The Millsboro bridge was demolished by implosion earlier today. The bridge, built in 1932, was one of the last remaining bridges left in Pennsylvania with a double X heavy lattice style of portal bracing.
The 95 metre long, skewed, two simple span, riveted Pratt thru truss bridge was supported on reinforced concrete abutments with flared wingwalls and a concrete pier.
The bridge had no innovative or distinctive details, including the use of rolled sections for most truss members which was introduced in the mid 1920s, and it is an example of common period technology. Neither the bridge nor its setting were historically or technologically significant.
