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NH - Farmington River Bridge (N)
Description
Bridge replaced an older covered bridge. This was a branch line of the New Haven called the "Canal Line" because of the heritage of the New Haven & Northampton from the Farmington Canal. It ended upriver in New Hartford.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bridge over Farmington River on New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
- Location
- Collinsville, Hartford County, Connecticut
- Status
- Removed after railroad line abandoned due to flood damage in 1955.
- History
- Built 1904
- Railroads
- - New Haven & Northampton Railroad (NH&N)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Design
- Double-intersection Warren through truss
- Also called
- Railroad Bridge
Three Bridges - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.81280, -72.92337 (decimal degrees)
41°48'46" N, 72°55'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/672488/4631075 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Collinsville
- Inventory number
- BH 61182 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 25, 2014: Updated by Ian Martin: Changed design to double-intersection Warren truss based on photo
- June 16, 2014: Updated by Chester Gehman: Clarified bridge description and history.
- June 2, 2014: Added by Luke Harden
Related Bridges
- Bridge Street Lenticular Bridge (Downstream)
- Town Bridge Road Bridge (Upstream)
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