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Pumpkin Hollow Road Bridge
Description
Bridge was actually located on a small section of Pumpkin Hollow Road in Great Barrington. A wooden pony truss of a bowstring nature was built in 1999 as a replacement. Apparently only the trusses were saved and are in storage in Great Barrington.Facts
- Overview
- Bridge over Green River on Pumpkin Hollow Road
- Location
- Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1888; replaced 1999
- Builder
- - Berlin Iron Bridge Co. of East Berlin, Connecticut
- Design
- Lenticular pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 58.1 ft.
Total length: 59.0 ft.
Deck width: 11.5 ft.
- Also called
- Hollenbeck Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.18786, -73.41319 (decimal degrees)
42°11'16" N, 73°24'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/631030/4671853 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Egremont
- Inventory number
- BH 61090 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection (as of 07/1994)
- Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 16.7 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 1992)
- 40
Update Log
- December 4, 2016: Updated by Chester Gehman: Added to description
- June 8, 2014: Updated by Chester Gehman: Modified description. Verified wood replacement.
- May 28, 2014: Added by Chester Gehman
Related Bridges
- Pumpkin Hollow Road Bridge (Successor)
Comments
Pumpkin Hollow Road Bridge
Rumours are these trusses will be used somewhere-sometime but they have been at the Great Barrington Recycle Center for at least ten years--maybe more. These photos I took a couple of years ago.
Pumpkin Hollow Road Bridge
Found the saved trusses of this bridge. Looks like they are at an old town dump:
Pumpkin Hollow Road Bridge
Pretty new bridge but why on earth didn't they fix the old one?!?
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Its a long time, but we can still be optimistic. We've had a Leneticular pony up here in VT has been in storage for 21 years now, but we are on schedule to have it reused on a pedestrian path within the next 3 years. Hope they can find a home for this one sooner!