Olive Street Railroad Bridge

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West Elevation, View East

Photo taken for the Historic American Engineering Record

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BH Photo #311906

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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
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: 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 2015): 6,868
Inventory numbers: CT 3752 (Connecticut bridge number)
BH 65236 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection report (as of February 2016): 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)
View more at BridgeReports.com

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