Bridgehunter.com | NH - Death Trap Bridge

Photos

Elimination of Death Trap. Showing overhead crossing, trolley tracks and trolley making the turn from Windsor toward Windsor Locks

Published prior to 1923

Enlarge

View this photo at books.google.com

BH Photo #392971

Map

Maps and Databases

Description

"Just what was this Death Trap? It was a narrow stretch of the lower part of Palisado Avenue that runs underneath the railroad overpass. Today this is a straight road, but in those more treacherous times it was a 90-degree hairpin turn at the bottom of a hill. While this was difficult enough for early automobile drivers to traverse, it was doubly more hazardous for trolley cars to execute, and on top of that, the road was also frequented by pedestrians and bicyclists, and prone to flooding." By Michelle Tom, librarian/archivist, 2019 Windsor Historical Society

Facts

Overview: Lost Pony/through plate girder bridge over Palisado Avenue & Connecticut Company tracks on New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Location: Windsor, Hartford County, Connecticut
Status: Replaced by a new bridge
History: Replaced 1917
Railroads: - Connecticut Company (ConnCo)
- Hartford Street Railway
- Interurban
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Streetcar
Design: Pony plate girder
Approximate latitude, longitude: +41.85415, -72.64220 (decimal degrees)
41°51'15" N, 72°38'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 18/695719/4636270 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Hartford North
Inventory number: BH 77474 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

May 10, 2021: New photo from Chester Gehman
May 31, 2017: Added by Dave King

Related Bridges

AMTK - Palisado Avenue Overpass (Successor)

Sources

Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Windsor's Death Trap | Windsor Historical Society - More photos & newspaper clipping

NH - Death Trap Bridge