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Amtrak - Shaw's Cove Bridge (Old)
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NYNH&H - Shaws Cove Bridge
Connecticut
Photo taken by Douglas Butler
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BH Photo #287001
Description
The Shaw Cove's Bridge is a forged steel rim-bearing swing bridge. It is a single-span, pin-connected Pratt through truss with thin diagonal eye-bars serving as tension members. It is significant as part of the transportation link in the shoreline route of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and as an industrial engineering solution to the need to provide dependable rail service while accommodating river navigation.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Shaw Cove/Coits Cove on New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
- Location
- New London, New London County, Connecticut
- Status
- Superstructure replaced
- History
- Built 1913, replaced 1984
- Builder
- - Berlin Iron Bridge Co. of East Berlin, Connecticut (piers)
- Railroads
- - Amtrak (AMTK)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Northeast Corridor (NEC)
- Design
- Pratt through truss swing
- Dimensions
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Span length: 136.0 ft.
Total length: 136.0 ft.
- Also called
- NH - Shaw's Cove Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.34861, -72.09714 (decimal degrees)
41°20'55" N, 72°05'50" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/742857/4581523 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- New London
- Inventory number
- BH 61597 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 3, 2015: Photo imported by Dave King
- February 3, 2015: Updated by Ian Martin: Added build/loss year and HAER photos
- July 3, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Mapped
- July 3, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler
Sources
- Douglas Butler
- Luke
- HAER CT-24 - New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Shaw's Cove Bridge, Spanning Shaw's Cove, New London, New London County, CT
- Ian Martin