Photos progress east-west because I say so.


Westbound, approaching and then looking back toward Johnstown at the old stone bridge that caused much of the damage of the Johnstown flood. The upstream side, which was refaced in concrete (the third photo shows original 19th-century stone on the downstream side), took a bunch of hits from debris but stood, unlike other bridges before it. Because it's a heavy stone bridge, it acted as a dam, keeping the floodwaters on top of Johnstown for several additional hours and allowing broken houses, bridges, and other wooden objects to amass behind it. Naturally, somehow the debris caught on fire, and the fire killed a lot of the people who were sitting in the debris hoping to be rescued.


Westbound in the part of Johnstown not affected by the flood. Used to be both lanes could go straight, though they would have had to immediately merge again. I didn't notice a problem with traffic queuing in just one lane.


Two old bridges PA 56 crosses.

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