LE&P Bridge over Brandywine Road

Visitors of the Summit County Metro Park's Bike and Hike trail may notice a previously paved area at the northern convergence of the paved trail and Brandywine Road. Today, this area is used as off-road parking, though historically was the site of one of the Lake Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad’s, Humpback Bridges”. The Lake Erie & Pittsburgh Railroad would later be acquired by the New York Central Railroad. The bridge was razed in the late 60s and a 1970 ODOT aerial shows the site following its demolition.

Very few photos and paintings exist of this bridge that Sommer walked by every working day on his commute to and from the Northfield railcar station that would take him to and from downtown Cleveland. An untitled and unmarked photograph in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Ingalls Library depicts the railroad bridge, likely photographed by Henry Percy Boynton in 1947 during his visit to Brandywine.