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ST - 5th Street Overpass

New Haven County, Connecticut

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Street Views 

Description 

Former HP&F main; most recently used around 2000 as a lead to a Tilcon plant that no longer accepts rail service.

Facts 

Overview
Pony/through plate girder bridge over 5th St on Pan Am Railways
Location
Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut
Status
Derelict/abandoned
Railroads
- Guilford Rail System (GRS)
- Hartford, Providence & Fishkill Railroad (HP&F)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Pan Am Railways (PAR)
- Springfield Terminal Railway (ST)
Design
Pony plate girder
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.54012, -73.04309   (decimal degrees)
41°32'24" N, 73°02'35" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/663232/4600567 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Waterbury
Inventory number
BH 63251 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Abandoned (3,650)
Connecticut (772)
Girder (10,234)
Guilford Rail System (101)
Hartford, Providence & Fishkill Railroad (48)
Have street view (26,947)
New Haven County, Connecticut (170)
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (511)
 Owned by railroad (12,423)
Pan Am Railways (137)
Plate girder (7,923)
Railroad (15,414)
Springfield Terminal Railway (158)
Through girder (3,810)
Waterbury, Connecticut (24)

Update Log 

  • September 28, 2014: Added by Royce and Bobette Haley

Sources 

  • Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com

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