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Ferry Street Bridge

New Haven County, Connecticut

Photos 

South Elevation, View Northeast

Photo taken for the Historic American Engineering Record

View photos at Library of Congress

BH Photo #228305

Map 

Street View 

Description 

Ferry Street Railroad Bridge is significant as a representative example of standard 20th-century truss construction; as a product of Boston Bridge Works, a regionally important bridge fabricator; and as part of the New Haven Railroad's extensive improvements to its freight facilities.

-- Historic American Engineering Record

Facts 

Overview
Through truss bridge over Amtrak Railroad on Ferry Street in New Haven
Location
East Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1912 by the Boston Bridge Works; rehabilitated 1992
Builder
- Boston Bridge Works of Boston, Massachusetts
Railroads
- Amtrak (AMTK)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
Design
Double-intersection Warren through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 113.9 ft.
Total length: 118.1 ft.
Deck width: 37.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.4 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.31878, -72.89782   (decimal degrees)
41°19'08" N, 72°53'52" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/675947/4576277 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
New Haven
Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
13,332
Inventory numbers
CT 3998 (Connecticut bridge number)
BH 12173 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of January 2018)
Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 45.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com

Categories 

Amtrak (536)
Boston Bridge Works (103)
Built 1912 (825)
Built during 1910s (9,633)
Connecticut (772)
Double-intersection Warren through truss (168)
Double-intersection Warren truss (456)
East Haven, Connecticut (7)
Functionally obsolete (6,426)
 Have street view (26,945)
New Haven County, Connecticut (170)
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (511)
Open (39,884)
Penn Central Railroad (1,348)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,394)
Through truss (15,058)
Total length 100-125 feet (5,169)
Truss (32,778)

Update Log 

  • October 10, 2014: Photo imported by Dave King
  • March 22, 2012: HAER photos posted by James Baughn
  • March 19, 2011: Updated by J.P.: updated location

Sources 

  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • HAER CT-54 - Ferry Street Railroad Bridge, Ferry Street over New Haven Railroad, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

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