Talk:Gray's Ferry Bridge

Rewrite
This article is a complete rewrite of the former article, with more inline citations, new photos, and considerably more information. The information about the modern 1976 bridge is from the National Bridge Inventory but there is no way that I know about to provide an inline citation. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:31, 11 July 2010 (UTC)

Two bridges, one article?
This article describes two different bridges, a highway bridge and an abandoned railroad bridge immediately adjacent to it. In the List of crossings of the Schuylkill River, the PW&B Railroad Bridge appears on a separate line with different coordinates, suggesting that it might be a separate article, but the wikilink just redirects to Gray's Ferry Bridge describing both highway and railroad bridges. Would there be any objection to splitting this article into two separate entries? Martindelaware (talk) 02:26, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * No particular objection. The article as it stands is doing triple duty by discussing the original ferry, the railroad bridge, and the (currently almost unmentioned) highway bridge. I like having them all together in one article because it conveys the full flavor of the crossings' historical importance, but I also see the logic of splitting them apart. If we do split into highway and rail bridge articles, how would you suggest handling the ferry/pontoon bridge info? PRRfan (talk) 03:55, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Done.PRRfan (talk) 18:41, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

PW&B floating bridge?
I've removed the following line because I can't find any source to support it: "A half-century later, another floating bridge was built by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, which was established in 1831. This bridge, which may have coexisted with the 1780 bridge, carried just cars, not locomotives, across the river." PRRfan (talk) 04:38, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I found a source that said a floating bridge coexisted with the 1838 Newkirk Viaduct,but nothing yet that says the railroad used it. PRRfan (talk) 18:41, 23 November 2012 (UTC)