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Amtrak - Warehouse Point Bridge

Hartford County, Connecticut

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Photo taken by Denimadept

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Deck girder bridge over Connecticut River on Amtrak Springfield Line
Location
Windsor Locks, Hartford County, Connecticut
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1903
Builder
- American Bridge Co. of New York (Pencoyd Plant)
Railroads
- Amtrak (AMTK)
- Connecticut Southern Railroad (CSOR)
- Conrail (CR)
- Guilford Rail System (GRS)
- Hartford & New Haven Railroad (H&NH)
- Interurban
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Pan Am Railways (PAR)
- Springfield Terminal Railway (ST)
Design
Baltimore through truss
Dimensions
Total length: 1,470.0 ft.
Also called
Amtrak - Connecticut River Bridge
NH - Warehouse Point Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.94333, -72.61352   (decimal degrees)
41°56'36" N, 72°36'49" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/697824/4646238 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Broad Brook
Inventory number
BH 56318 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

7-panel truss (368)
American Bridge Co. (1,422)
Amtrak (483)
Baltimore through truss (307)
Baltimore truss (337)
Built 1903 (537)
Built during 1900s (6,918)
Connecticut (710)
Connecticut River (76)
Connecticut Southern Railroad (12)
Conrail (1,172)
Deck girder (5,317)
Girder (9,509)
Guilford Rail System (101)
Hartford & New Haven Railroad (10)
Hartford County, Connecticut (117)
 Have street view (25,856)
Interurban (893)
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (443)
Open (38,696)
Owned by railroad (11,559)
Pan Am Railways (134)
Pin-connected (3,772)
Plate girder (7,306)
Railroad (14,816)
Springfield Terminal Railway (149)
Through truss (14,341)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,759)
Truss (31,635)
Warehouse Point (East Windsor), Connecticut (2)
Windsor Locks, Connecticut (5)

Update Log 

  • March 6, 2019: New photos from Chester Gehman
  • January 24, 2018: New photo from Dave King
  • January 20, 2018: New Street View added by Dave King
  • November 10, 2017: Updated by Luke: Added builder
  • November 10, 2017: New photo from Dave King
  • May 22, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Springfield Terminal Railway Co.", "Amtrak", "Railroad", "Connecticut River"
  • May 22, 2013: Added by K. A. Erickson

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Sources 

  • K. A. Erickson
  • Wikipedia - Wiki link
  • Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
  • Luke
  • Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com

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