WATCH: SEPTA’s New Crum Creek Viaduct Goes Up in Fast Forward

Every 15 minutes, two webcams capture progress on the Media/Elwyn Line bridge replacement. You can watch it all from the beginning.

Where things stood on the Crum Creek Viaduct this past winter, about halfway through the video. | Screen shot of video from SEPTA Crum Creek Viaduct website

Where things stood on the Crum Creek Viaduct this past winter, a little beyond halfway through the video. | Screen shot of video from SEPTA Crum Creek Viaduct website

One month from now, you won’t be able to ride SEPTA’s Media/Elwyn Regional Rail Line west of Swarthmore, as the line beyond that point will be shut down while the spans of the new Crum Creek Viaduct are put in place.

(You will, however, be able to get to every station from Wallingford to Elwyn via shuttle buses from Swarthmore, so fear not, you won’t be completely stranded.)

As this is being written, construction crews are putting the steel beams of the new spans in place on temporary supports so they can be moved into position during the 11-week shutdown of the line.

An east-facing Webcam mounted near the viaduct’s west end has been capturing progress on the construction project at 15-minute intervals since work began last August. Another camera mounted directly over the east end of the span facing west has been feeding images since last October.

The video below comes from the east-facing camera. To see the recap from the west-facing one and to stay abreast of the project in real time, visit SEPTA’s Crum Creek Viaduct webcam site.

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