In the 18th and early 19th centuries, a coach ride from Camden to the Jersey Shore would be a dusty, bumpy affair and could take upwards of four hours. The ferries welcomed passenger traffic as well as a huge trade in produce and livestock transport. A phalanx of ferry companies had traversed the waters between both cities dating all the way back to 1688. Vacationers headed to the shore could also take a ferry from Philadelphia to Camden and make the remainder of the trip by carriage. Cape May catered to the affluent and upwardly mobile looking for nature, fishing, and fresh air with a summertime stay at the beach. Long before rail travel, vacationers could sail down the Delaware River on special excursion vessels and disembark on the bay side of the peninsula, America’s first premier holiday destination was Cape May, N.J. area known as “Delair,” this long-armed structure was needed as much for freight and rail commerce as it was for holiday vacations down the Jersey Shore. Located just south of the Frankford Creek in Bridesburg and crossing over the Delaware River into the Pennsauken, N.J. It would be another 94 years before the first Philadelphia crossing was completed Pennsylvania Railroad’s four-span Petit truss Pennsylvania & New Jersey Railroad Bridge, known colloquially as the Delair Bridge. This bridge evolved over the years to become today’s “Trenton Makes, The World Takes” steel truss, completed in 1928.īridge builders eyeing points south of Trenton were presented a far more difficult task due to the river’s extreme width, tidal action, and soft river bottom. The first rail bridge across the Delaware River was built here in 1802. For trains going north of Philadelphia the southernmost crossing into New Jersey was at Trenton, where tidewater abruptly stops to meet the eight-foot Falls of the Delaware. The Delaware River was all that stood between Philadelphia and early railroads linking points south, a mere 800-foot crossing, but a much bigger challenge than that of crossing the Schuylkill River. Philadelphia is covered with train tracks both active and abandoned, with bridges like this one crossing every small and large body of water in the region. The bridge was built in 1902 to replace the Newkirk Viaduct, a multimodal bridge constructed in 1838 and the city’s first permanent crossing over the river. 1 swing bridge at the Schuylkill Crescent in Gray’s Ferry will soon be reactivated for cyclist and pedestrian use when it is converted into a trail connector linking the Schuylkill River Trail to Bartram’s Mile. The abandoned Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore RR Bridge No. The four truss rail bridge was built by Pennsylvania Railroad and completed in 1896. The Delair Bridge spans from Bridesburg to Pennsauken, New Jersey.
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