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Northeast Corridor bridge over Lost Lake, December 2019

A stone arch bridge that carries the Northeast Corridor over Lost Lake in Guilford, seen in December 2019. The bridge may date to the 1852 construction of the Shore Line Railway.

Photo by Pi.1415926535

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #472515

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Overview: Stone arch bridge over Great Harbor Marsh on Amtrak Northeast Corridor
Location: Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut
Status: Open to traffic
Railroads: - Amtrak (AMTK)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Northeast Corridor (NEC)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
Design: Brownstone arch
Approximate latitude, longitude: +41.26670, -72.70417 (decimal degrees)
41°16'00" N, 72°42'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 18/692309/4570905 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Guilford
Inventory number: BH 68640 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

September 17, 2022: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
May 20, 2020: Photo imported by Ian Martin
July 23, 2015: New Street View added by Ian Martin

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Geoff Hubbs

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AMTK - Leetes Island Arch

Posted September 16, 2022, by Brian Raczkowski (Keepmovin1008 [at] gmail [dot] com)

These photos of the Leetes Island Arch were taken on 9/15/2023 while kayaking up into and back out of Lost Lake close to high tide. The year 1891 is inscribed on one of the stones.

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