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"Not Only For... Material Progress... But For The General Good And Uplift": A History Of Guernsey And Its Humpback Bridge, Elwood W. Christ
"Not Only For... Material Progress... But For The General Good And Uplift": A History Of Guernsey And Its Humpback Bridge, Elwood W. Christ
Adams County History
The Guernsey or "Humpback" Bridge (see figure 2) is dying from neglect. Small saplings and briar bushes now cuddle its abutments that Mother Nature has bombarded with many wind and rain showers and baked with her sweltering summer suns. Several timbers are tattooed, seared by countless embers from wood- and coal-fired locomotives that have traveled underneath it along the Gettysburg Railroad line. Sections of several other timbers have rotted. Indeed, this little, single-lane span cannot withstand the weight of motor vehicles much longer. For this reason, in 1999 the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission ruled that the forlorn bridge was a …