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CSX Susquehanna River Bridge
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Main span on west side of island
This is the longest through truss span on the bridge at over 500 feet.
Photo taken by Jann Mayer in September 2005
License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
Description
This bridge crosses the Susquehanna River between Havre De Grace and Perryville, MD. Although it crosses Garrett Island in the middle, it is a continuous bridge consisting of 38 spans.The west side of the river has a 500+ foot through truss and 8 230 foot deck truss spans. The east side has a 500+ foot deck truss, a 400 foot through truss, and 2 230 foot deck truss spans. The spans over the island are also deck trusses, but are much shorter than the others.
Facts
- Overview
- Through and deck truss bridge over Susquehanna on railroad
- Location
- Havre de Grace, Harford County, Maryland, and Cecil County, Maryland
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1907
- Builder
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Design
- Main span: Pennsylvania through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 520.0 ft.
Total length: 6,109.0 ft. (1.2 mi.)
- Also called
- Susquehanna River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.56640, -76.09342 (decimal degrees)
39°33'59" N, 76°05'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/406077/4380204 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Havre De Grace
- Inventory number
- BH 52605 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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