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Air Line State Park Trail - Pocotopaug Creek Bridge
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Airline Trail Pocotopaug Creek Bridge
View from abutment showing main span over Pocotopaug Creek
Photo taken by Ian Martin in August 2014
BH Photo #291587
Description
Two-span deck plate girder bridge crossing Pocotopaug Creek on the former NYNH&H Air Line, now the Airline State Park Trail.Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Pocotopaug Creek on Airline State Park Trail - South
- Location
- East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Converted to trail use 2012
- Railroads
- - Boston & New York Air-Line Railroad (B&NY)
- New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Railroad (NHM&W)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Rail-to-trail
- Design
- Two-span deck plate girder bridge (one long span, one short span) resting on brownstone abutments and piers.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 45.0 ft.
Total length: 76.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.57538, -72.50073 (decimal degrees)
41°34'31" N, 72°30'03" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/708362/4605649 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 62540 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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