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CNJ - South Branch Raritan River Bridge

Somerset County, New Jersey

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Photo taken by Owl's Flight

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

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BH Photo #272581

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Description 

In the sources section there is a link to an image of the bridge n thei winter of 1965

Facts 

Overview
Abandoned pratt through truss bridge over South Branch Raritan River on Central Railroad of New Jersey
Location
Neshanic Station, Somerset County, New Jersey
Status
Derelict/abandoned
History
Built 1896,
Railroads
- Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ)
- Conrail (CR)
Design
Pratt through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.50868, -74.72679   (decimal degrees)
40°30'31" N, 74°43'36" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/523146/4484253 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Raritan
Inventory number
BH 59174 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (6,377)
Abandoned (3,148)
Built 1896 (240)
Built during 1890s (2,547)
Central Railroad of New Jersey (59)
Conrail (859)
Have street view (23,497)
Neshanic Station, New Jersey (3)
 New Jersey (1,216)
Pin-connected (3,488)
Pratt through truss (4,687)
Pratt truss (8,159)
Railroad (13,685)
Somerset County, New Jersey (98)
Through truss (13,141)
Truss (29,800)

Update Log 

  • July 22, 2016: New photo from Art Suckewer
  • January 8, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Added build date
  • January 8, 2014: Updated by J.P.: Added categories "Central Railroad Company of New Jersey", "Pin-connected"

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CNJ South Branch Raritan River Bridge
Posted January 8, 2014, by Luke Harden (lukemh9 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Done.

CNJ South Branch Raritan River Bridge
Posted January 8, 2014, by ArtS (asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com)

Luke,

Can you attach the 1965 picture of this bridge that is presently linked to the Lenticular truss next to it?

Regards,

Art S.