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FEC - West Palm Beach Canal Bridge

Palm Beach County, Florida

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FEC -West Palm Beach Canal Bridge

Open of traffic

Photo taken by Douglas Butler in April 2013

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

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BH Photo #290097

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Street View 

Video 

Pan looking West

Video by Mark Boettcher

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Description 

This bridge was converted to a fixed span the towers and machinery is removed.

Facts 

Overview
Deck plate girder bridge over West Palm Beach Canal on Florida East Coast RW
Location
Canal Point, Palm Beach County, Florida
Status
Open to traffic but the towers mahinery removed
History
Built 1924 towers and machinery were removed
Builder
- Waddell & Harrington of Kansas City, Missouri
Railroad
- Florida East Coast Railway (FEC)
Design
Deck plate girder vertical
Approximate latitude, longitude
+26.86361, -80.63178   (decimal degrees)
26°51'49" N, 80°37'54" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/536577/2971382 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Pahokee
Land survey
T. 41 S., R. 37 E., Sec. 33
Inventory number
BH 62176 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Built 1924 (781)
Built during 1920s (10,328)
Canal Point, Florida (1)
Deck girder (6,398)
Florida (683)
Florida East Coast Railway (46)
Girder (11,346)
Have street view (29,894)
Movable (3,156)
 Open (41,203)
Owned by railroad (13,727)
Palm Beach County, Florida (46)
Plate girder (8,875)
Rigid Connected Tower Vertical Lift (60)
Vertical lift (431)
Waddell & Harrington (48)
Waddell Vertical Lift (28)

Update Log 

  • February 9, 2022: New photos from Mark Boettcher
  • November 17, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • February 15, 2017: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
  • August 23, 2014: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
  • August 18, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • August 1, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler

Sources 

  • Douglas Butler
  • Mark Boettcher

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