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CNLA - Newport River Bridge
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Photo taken by ⚓BLVCKMETVLBIKE⚓
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
BH Photo #257634
Description
This particular rare bascule bridge was constructed with the links connected below the counterweight to the triangular A posts. On most overhead counterweight bascules has the links connected on top of the counterweight to the posts that pushes the counterweight down and the bridge raises and raises up when the bridge lowers. This Morehead City bridge when the bridge lowers the links under the counterweight lifts up and pulls the counterweight back down when the bridge raises.Facts
- Overview
- Bascule bridge over Newport River on Former Beaufort & Morehead Carolina Rail Service Railroad
- Location
- Morehead City, Carteret County, North Carolina
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built in 1925
- Builders
- - North Carolina Department Of Transportation (Contractor)
- Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroads
- - Atlantic & East Carolina Railway (AEC)
- Beaufort & Morehead Railroad (BMH)
- Carolina Coastal Railway (CLNA)
- Carolina Rail Services Inc. (CRIJ)
- Morehead & South Fork Railroad (MHSF)
- Design
- Bascule deck plate girder Overhead Articulated Bascule
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 129.9 ft.
Total length: 2,416.1 ft. (0.5 mi.)
- Also called
- BHM - Newport River Bridge
MHSF - Newport River Bridge
AEC - Newport River Bridge
CRIJ - Newport River Bridge
Radio Island Railroad Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.72044, -76.69348 (decimal degrees)
34°43'14" N, 76°41'37" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/344934/3843346 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Beaufort
- Inventory numbers
- NC 310110 (North Carolina bridge number)
BH 51731 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 17, 2020: New photos from Douglas Butler
- July 24, 2019: New photos from Douglas Butler
- May 14, 2019: New photo from Douglas Butler
- April 9, 2019: New photos from Douglas Butler
- December 17, 2018: Updated by Luke: Added categories "Strauss Articulated Overhead Counterweight Bascule", "Navigable waterway"
- December 17, 2018: Updated by Douglas Butler: Info of the history of the Strauss articulated overhead counterweight types
- December 4, 2018: New photos from Douglas Butler
- November 21, 2018: New photos from Douglas Butler
- September 25, 2018: New photos from Douglas Butler
- December 9, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- June 2, 2016: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- January 26, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- July 7, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- July 6, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- April 24, 2015: New photos from Douglas Butler
- March 16, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- March 9, 2015: New photos from Douglas Butler
- March 2, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- February 28, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- February 23, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- January 25, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- June 17, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- September 3, 2013: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 28, 2013: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 19, 2013: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- June 27, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added photograph of the bridge
- June 27, 2013: New video from Nathan Holth
- March 17, 2012: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- Flickr
- Nathan Holth
- Patent That Appears To Describe This Bridge
- Luke
- Douglas Butler
- FM Morehead City - Trains passing through a rail drawbridge and raised back in it's open position
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/nc/carteret/bh51731/
Now a tecnical drawing that shows the railroad bridge.