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NH - Mine Brook Arch
Description
Stone arch/culvert carrying Mine Brook under the Air Line in the Cobalt section of East Hampton. The railbed was abandoned in 1965 and will eventually be converted into the Airline State Park Trail.Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned stone arch bridge over Mine Brook on NYNH&H Air Line (abandoned)
- Location
- East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- Future prospects
- To become part of the Airline State Park Trail
- History
- Abandoned 1965
- Railroads
- - Boston & New York Air-Line Railroad (B&NY)
- New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Railroad (NHM&W)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Design
- Stone arch
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.56530, -72.54790 (decimal degrees)
41°33'55" N, 72°32'52" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/704460/4604417 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Middle Haddam
- Inventory number
- BH 67261 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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The Mine Brook arch was built in 1898 when the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad decided to fill in the wrought iron Cobalt Viaduct, originally built in 1873. The arch had to be built to allow Mine Brook to pass under the filled in viaduct. The project took most of 1898 to complete. The Cobalt Viaduct was the first, and smallest, of three iron viaducts on the Airline to be filled in. The much larger Rapallo and Lyman viaducts, a few miles further east, would be filled in in 1912/1913. Like the Rapallo and Lyman viaducts, the Cobalt Viaduct is still there, buried under tons of sand and cinders.