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AMTK - Bronx River Bascules (1908)

Bronx County, New York

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Amtrak - Bronx River Bridge

Bronx NY

Photo taken by Douglas Butler in March 2013

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

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BH Photo #289700

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Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Warren through truss bridge over Bronx River on Amtrak RR (6 tracks)
Location
New York City, Bronx County, New York
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1908; west of 3 bascules (NewYork Westchester & Boston) removed
Builders
- Pennsylvania Steel Co. of Steelton, Pennsylvania
- Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
Railroads
- Amtrak (AMTK)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- New York, Westchester & Boston Railroad (NYWB)
- Northeast Corridor (NEC)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
Design
Warren through truss bascule
Dimensions
Total length: 103.0 ft.
Also called
Bridge 3.40
NYNH&H RR Bridge #3.40
Bridge #3.40
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.82998, -73.88371   (decimal degrees)
40°49'48" N, 73°53'01" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/594123/4520482 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Central Park
Inventory number
BH 62100 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Amtrak (574)
Bascule (1,084)
Bronx County, New York (117)
Bronx River (36)
Built 1908 (786)
Built during 1900s (7,636)
Have street view (28,902)
Movable (3,114)
Navigable waterway (2,204)
New York (4,889)
New York City, New York (342)
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (529)
New York, Westchester & Boston Railroad (6)
 Northeast Corridor (156)
Open (40,969)
Owned by railroad (13,500)
Penn Central Railroad (1,538)
Pennsylvania Steel Co. (165)
Railroad (16,458)
Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. (123)
Through truss (16,776)
Total length 100-125 feet (5,381)
Truss (35,452)
Warren through truss (1,704)
Warren truss (7,001)

Update Log 

  • December 18, 2021: New photo from Patrick Gurwell
  • June 19, 2021: New photo from Patrick Gurwell
  • May 16, 2021: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
  • August 23, 2020: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
  • July 3, 2020: New Street View added by Geoff Hubbs
  • April 26, 2020: New photo from Patrick Gurwell
  • October 28, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • October 23, 2019: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
  • June 22, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • December 25, 2018: Updated by Gregory Grice: Added official bridge names & current photo.
  • June 30, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
  • March 20, 2015: Updated by Luke: Added photographs
  • March 20, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • July 30, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • July 29, 2014: New Street View added by Douglas Butler

Related Bridges 

Sources 

  • Douglas Butler
  • Luke
  • BridgesNYC - Info
  • Gregory Grice - bl20gh114 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Geoff Hubbs
  • Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com
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Comments 

Amtrak - Bronx River Bascules
Posted December 26, 2018, by Barry (bllauver33 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Has one of the trusses been removed? I can see only two leafs in the Google Earth photo.