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AMTK - Gunpowder River Bridge
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Amtrak -Gunpowder River Bridge
Oliver Beach MD
Photo taken by Douglas Butler in April 2013
License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
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BH Photo #284750
Description
The bascule lift bridge is a twin of the Perryman bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Girder bridge over Gunpowder River on Amtrak RR ( 2 tracks)
- Location
- Oliver Beach, Baltimore County, Maryland, and Harford County, Maryland
- Status
- Open to rail traffic, draw mechanism removed
- Future prospects
- Long-term plans for replacement
- History
- Built 1912-13 one track at a time to replace wooden pile trestle
- Builders
- - Gustav Lindenthal of Brno, Cisleithania, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Now known as Brno, South Moravia, Czech Republic) (Engineer)
- Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroads
- - Amtrak (AMTK)
- Commuter Rail
- Maryland Area Regional Commuter (MARC)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Northeast Corridor (NEC)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Design
- Concrete deck girder trestle with one through girder bascule lift span
- Dimensions
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Total length: 4,853.0 ft. (0.9 mi.)
- Also called
- PRR - Gunpowder River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.38387, -76.35091 (decimal degrees)
39°23'02" N, 76°21'03" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/383654/4360246 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Edgewood
- Inventory number
- BH 61216 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 6, 2020: New photos from Dave King
- June 15, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- October 25, 2014: Photo imported by Ian Martin
- August 7, 2014: Updated by Luke: Added category "Gustav Lindenthal"; Removed other category
- August 7, 2014: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: Added details, corrected mistakes
- June 3, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Noted that the state of Maryland and Amtrak are considering options for replacing Gunpowder with a higher-capacity bridge
- June 3, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler