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AMTK - Dock Bridge

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

Photos 

Dock Bridge

Photo taken by Adam Elmquist

View this photo at panoramio.com

BH Photo #257698

Map 

Street Views 

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)

Categories 

Amtrak (574)
Auxiliary Counterweight Vertical Lift (8)
Built 1935 (1,490)
Built during 1930s (12,164)
County line crossing (533)
Essex County, New Jersey (128)
Have street view (28,880)
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad (5)
Hudson County, New Jersey (111)
Movable (3,114)
NR-listed (3,014)
Navigable waterway (2,204)
New Jersey (1,692)
Newark, New Jersey (49)
Northeast Corridor (156)
Open (40,960)
 Owned by state (16,548)
Passaic River (56)
Penn Central Railroad (1,536)
Pennsylvania Railroad (1,022)
Port Authority Trans-Hudson (6)
Railroad (16,447)
Span Drive Vertical Lift (90)
Span length 175-250 feet (2,058)
Through truss (16,709)
Truss (35,375)
Vertical lift (428)
Waddell & Hardesty (6)
Waddell Vertical Lift (28)
Warren through truss (1,704)
Warren through truss with all verticals (439)
Warren truss (6,996)

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

Related Bridges 

Sources 

  • Frank Hicks
  • Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
  • Douglas Butler
  • Luke
  • Geoff Hubbs
  • Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com

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