Rating:
51643
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1 vote
AMTK - Dock Bridge
Description
Dock Bridge is a pair of parallel vertical lift bridges over the Passaic River which carries Amtrak (formerly Pennsylvania Railroad) and PATH (formerly Hudson & Manhattan) trains. Each bridge carries 3 tracks. The south bridge has 2 separate lift spans, a single track and a double track span for the PATH, which is 10 feet higher.
Facts
- Overview
- Warren through truss with all verticals bridges over Passaic River on Amtrak (formerly Pennsylvania RR)
- Location
- Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, and Hudson County, New Jersey
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1935
- Builder
- - Waddell & Hardesty of New York, New York (Design)
- Railroads
- - Amtrak (AMTK)
- Hudson & Manhattan Railroad (H&M)
- Northeast Corridor (NEC)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH)
- Design
- Warren through truss with all verticals
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 230.0 ft.
- Recognition
-
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1980
- Also called
- Bridge 9.9
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.73581, -74.16164 (decimal degrees)
40°44'09" N, 74°09'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/570788/4509768 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Elizabeth
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 80002484 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 51643 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 27, 2021: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
- December 23, 2019: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
- November 10, 2019: Updated by Geoff Hubbs: Added more description and alternate name
- August 6, 2019: New Street View added by Geoff Hubbs
- May 8, 2019: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
- March 5, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- April 27, 2016: Photo imported by Dave King
- January 14, 2016: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- November 30, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- September 26, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 17, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- July 3, 2013: Photo imported by Dave King
- July 1, 2013: Photo imported by Dave King
- June 29, 2013: New Street View added by Dave King
- March 7, 2012: Added by Frank Hicks
Sources
- Frank Hicks
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Douglas Butler
- Luke
- Geoff Hubbs
- Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com