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Dock Bridge

Essex County, New Jersey, and Hudson County, New Jersey
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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.

Facts 

Overview
Warren through truss with all verticals bridge 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
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
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)
USGS topographic map
Elizabeth
Inventory numbers
NRHP 80002484 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 51643 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Amtrak (158)
Built 1935 (1,457)
Built during 1930s (8,552)
Essex County, New Jersey (42)
Hudson County, New Jersey (36)
Movable (1,355)
NR-listed (2,353)
New Jersey (749)
Newark, New Jersey (5)
Open (28,301)
Owned by state (9,806)
 Passaic River (33)
Pennsylvania Railroad (167)
Railroad (4,068)
Span length 175-250 feet (1,483)
Through truss (9,205)
Truss (23,565)
Vertical lift (275)
Warren through truss (926)
Warren through truss with all verticals (143)
Warren truss (3,957)

Update Log 

  • March 7, 2012: Added by Frank Hicks

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