The Layton Bridge is a Pratt truss bridge over the Youghiogheny River

Youghiogheny River

The Youghiogheny River , or the Yough for short, is a tributary of the Monongahela River in the U.S. states of West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania...

, originally built for the Washington Run Railroad

Washington Run Railroad

-External links:* Website with postcard view of the railroad tunnel...

,construction began 1893 and it was completed in 1899. The last train crossed in 1931. It was converted to automotive use in 1933, and connects Layton, Pennsylvania

Layton, Pennsylvania

Layton is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. It is the former site of a large brickworks, due to local deposits of flint clay. Here, the Washington Run Railroad connected to the B&O Railroad....

 with Perryopolis, Pennsylvania

Perryopolis, Pennsylvania

Perryopolis is a borough in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,764 at the 2000 census.-History:George Washington purchased here when land first became available. He visited in 1770 and said, "as fine a land as I have ever seen, a great deal of rich meadow; it is well...

 via a one-lane tunnel, near the suspected location of the eighteenth century Spark's Fort

Spark's Fort (Pennsylvania)

Spark's Fort was a pioneer blockhouse in Pennsylvania, erected on the southern side of the Youghiogheny River, near Burn's Ford as early as 1774. It was first used as a polling place on July 8, 1776....

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The bridge has not been painted in recent years and its members are now corroded.

Arts and Media

The bridge will be filmed as part of the television pilot Fire in the Hole, and was seen in the movie The Silence of the Lambs.

External links

• Nomination for NRHP http://www.historicbridges.org/pennsylvania/layton/layton_nomination.pdf