Rating:
49766
{83}%
2 votes
DCR - Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Bridge
Description
Built 1966 as part of expansion of C&D Canal by Army Corps of Engineers, replacing earlier lift span. Lift span is normally maintained in a raised position and lowered for approaching freight trains. Most rail traffic operates at night because of passenger trains on nearby Amtrak Northeast Corridor.
Link to web page: http://www.johnweeks.com/c-and-d-canal/pages/conrail.html
Facts
- Overview
- Modern Warren through truss lift bridge over Chesapeake & Delaware Canal on Delmarva Central Railroad
- Location
- Summit Bridge, New Castle County, Delaware
- Status
- In use by Norfolk Southern Railroad
- Future prospects
- Bridge is part of Norfolk Southern railroad property scheduled to be leased/transferred to new operator, Delmarva Central Railroad, by end of 2016.
- Builder
- - Ingalls Iron Works of Birmingham, Alabama
- Railroads
- - Conrail (CR)
- Delmarva Central Railroad
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Design
- Modern Warren through truss lift span
- Also called
- NS - Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Bridge
PC - Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Bridge
Conrail - Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Bridge
PRR - Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Bridge
Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Railroad Bridge
Summit Point Railroad Bridge
Delmarva Central Railroad C&D Canal Drawbridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.54343, -75.70306 (decimal degrees)
39°32'36" N, 75°42'11" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/439588/4377320 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Saint Georges
- Inventory number
- BH 49766 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 10, 2020: New photos from Ian Nelson
- December 13, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- November 17, 2018: New photos from Timothy and Joann Phillips
- May 19, 2018: Updated by Luke: Added builder
- May 18, 2018: Photo imported by Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- November 15, 2016: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: Pending bridge ownership change listed
- July 5, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- October 4, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- January 4, 2014: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: Added link to web page for bridge
- August 28, 2013: New photo from Douglas Butler
- January 6, 2012: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: Fixed several typos, added info and description
- October 5, 2011: Added by Daniel Hopkins