Bort Road is one of those countless rural roads in America that most people will never travel or know about.
It has a timeless quality about it, as though time has forgotten it.
Yet to the engineers in the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bort Road is well known.
It crosses the CSX Erie West Subdivision on a one-lane bridge that was built decades ago when these tracks were owned by the New York Central.
In recent years the bridge has received some repairs and been closed for several weeks at times.
PennDOT would like to replace the bridge, possibly by moving it closer to the town of North East.
Perhaps some day in the not too distant future they’ll do that. But for now passenger trains continue to pass beneath this bridge just as countless NYC and Penn Central trains did in the years before Amtrak.
Shown is Amtrak’s Boston-bound Lake Shore Limited in late May.
The crossing signals in the background are for the Lake Erie District of Norfolk Southern, which Bort Road crosses at grade.
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