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Olive Street Railroad Bridge
Description
Olive Street Railroad Bridge is significant as a representative example of the standard rivet-connected, steel truss technology of the 20th-century, and as part of extensive early 20th-century improvements to the state's most important rail corridor, the New Haven Railroad's mainline.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over Amtrak Railroad on Olive Street in New Haven
- Location
- New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1906; Replaced 1998
- Builder
- - Milliken Brothers of New York City, New York (fabricator)
- Railroads
- - Amtrak (AMTK)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Design
- Double-intersection Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 133.9 ft.
Total length: 137.1 ft.
Deck width: 29.5 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 16.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.30897, -72.91899 (decimal degrees)
41°18'32" N, 72°55'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/674201/4575145 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- New Haven
- Average daily traffic (as of 2017)
- 7,006
- Inventory numbers
- CT 3752 (Connecticut bridge number)
BH 65236 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of April 2018)
- Overall condition: Good
Superstructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 74.1 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- January 3, 2015: Added by Dave King
Sources
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- HAER CT-58 - Olive Street Railroad Bridge, Spanning AMTRAK Tracks at Olive Street, New Haven, New Haven County, CT