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Erie - Berry's Creek Bridge
Description
This railroad bridge carries once 4 track the bridge counterweight rolls along the track in the open position with both pulley wheels with ropes on each tower of curved tracks.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bridge over Berry's Creek on New York Lake Erie & Western Railroad
- Location
- Rutherford, Bergen County, New Jersey
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built 1896
- Railroads
- - Erie Railroad (ERIE)
- New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad (NYLE&W)
- Design
- Belidor Rolling Counterweight Bascule Drawbridge
- Also called
- NYLE&W Berry's Creek Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.81011, -74.09225 (decimal degrees)
40°48'36" N, 74°05'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/576562/4518073 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Weehawken
- Inventory number
- BH 60344 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 21, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad", "Railroad"
- March 21, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler