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PRSL - Crook Horn Creek Bridge
Video
P-RSL Crookhorn Movable Bridge at Ocean City, NJ July 1975 The two car Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines weekend train approaches the tower at Tuckahoe, NJ. The tower operator hoops orders to the conductor. The RDC's then separate with the lead car going to Cape May and the second car to Ocean City. The bridge operator at the Crookhorn swing bridge makes a trial run closing and opening the bridge. He then closes it and waves the train across. Video by Tom Smith posted by Alexander D. Mitchell IV |
Description
Ring gear on bridge failed Aug. 13, 1981, forcing abandonment of all rail service to Ocean City two months later on Oct. 5th. Abandoned bridge removed by NJ DOT November 1992 to widen channel.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss drawbridge over Crook Horn Creek on Conrail RR
- Location
- Ocean City, Cape May County, New Jersey
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built 1910; abandoned 1981, removed Nov. 1992
- Railroads
- - Cape May Seashore Lines (CMSL)
- Conrail (CR)
- Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines (PRSL)
- Design
- Pratt through truss swing
- Also called
- Conrail - Crook Horn Creek Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.23249, -74.64623 (decimal degrees)
39°13'57" N, 74°38'46" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/530533/4342636 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Sea Isle City
- Inventory number
- BH 62441 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 15, 2019: New photo from Douglas Butler
- July 8, 2017: New photo from Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- August 12, 2015: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: Changed name; added removal date
- February 10, 2015: Updated by Alexander D. Mitchell IV: Added video and PRR diagrams
- January 27, 2015: Updated by Ian Martin: Fixed mapping, added abandonment date
- August 11, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler
Sources
- Douglas Butler
- Ian Martin
- Alexander D. Mitchell IV
- Lynn Drobbin & Associates - Image
- SJRail.com Contributors Gallery - Image
- SJRail.com Timeline - chronology of events in South Jersey railroading
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According to the The Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society,,,(Highline article) the Crook Horn Swing bridge broke its gear on August 13, 1981,,, ending service to Ocean City. On Oct 5, 1981 service to Cape May was terminated,, ending all service to the shore's southern points...