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NH - Cape Cod Canal Bridge
Description
This first Strauss Heel Trunnion bascule bridge has 2 dc motors of 65 horsepower according to the speed was decelerated to it's fully raised or closed position, this span has a counterweight with a rivet steel plate shell around it the struts which attaches to the counterweight bridge tower when raised the shaft is toward the center line of the span. this span was in heavy use until 1935 when the Strauss heel trunnion was replaced with a vertical lift bridge.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bridge over Cape Cod Canal on New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad
- Location
- Buzzards Bay, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1910; Replaced 1935
- Builders
- - Edward Gagel ( Chief Engineer)
- Eug Klapp (Deputy Chief Engineer)
- Pennsylvania Steel Co. of Steelton, Pennsylvania (Builder)
- Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois (Design)
- W. H. Moore (Engineers of Bridges)
- W.M. Barclay (Parsons Chief Engineer)
- Railroad
- - New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Design
- First Strauss Heel Trunnion Warren Through truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 160.0 ft.
Total length: 160.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.74197, -70.61366 (decimal degrees)
41°44'31" N, 70°36'49" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 19/365819/4622386 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Pocasset
- Inventory number
- BH 57626 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 28, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- April 22, 2018: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- April 17, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- November 23, 2016: New video from Douglas Butler
- February 22, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- January 26, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- March 3, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- October 29, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- October 25, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- July 29, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- July 10, 2014: New photos from Douglas Butler
- June 11, 2014: New photos from Douglas Butler
- January 15, 2014: New Street View added by Luke Harden
- January 15, 2014: Updated by Nathan Holth: Added builder.
- August 20, 2013: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- August 18, 2013: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- August 15, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Corrected reporting mark
- August 15, 2013: Added by Douglas Butler
Related Bridges
- MC - Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge (Successor)
- NH - Cape Cod Canal Bridge (Old) (Successor)
Sources
- Douglas Butler
- Luke
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Nathan Holth
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The Ashtabula Railroad Bascule bridge is a copy or a duplicate to this first heel trunnion bascule bridge built in 1910, this bridge was constructed in 1911 and still in heavy use.