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Walkway Over The Hudson
Photos
Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #137509
Facts
- Overview
- Cantilevered deck truss bridge over the Hudson River between Poughkeepsie and Highland
- Location
- Highland, Dutchess County, New York, and Ulster County, New York
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built 1888 by the Union Bridge Co.; closed to railroad traffic May 8, 1974 due to fire; reopened to pedestrians on Oct. 3, 2009
- Builders
- - Arthur B. Paine (Designer)
- Charles Macdonald (Designer)
- Dawson, Symmes & Usher (Foundation Engineers)
- Harrison & Burrowes Bridge Constructors Inc. (2009 rehabilitation)
- John F. O'Rourke (Structural Engineer)
- P. P. Dickinson (Structural Engineer)
- Ralph Modjeski of Bochnia, Poland (1907 Rehab)
- Union Bridge Co. of Buffalo, New York & Athens, Pennsylvania
- Railroads
- - Central New England Railway (CNE)
- Conrail (CR)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
- Rail-to-trail
- Design
- Cantilevered Warren deck truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 548.0 ft.
Total length: 6,767.1 ft. (1.3 mi.)
Deck width: 35.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1979
- Also called
- PRR - Poughkeepsie Bridge
Conrail - Poughkeepsie Bridge
PRR - Hudson River Bridge (Poughkeepsie)
Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge
CNE - Poughkeepsie Bridge
Poughkeepsie Highland Railroad Bridge
PC - Poughkeepsie Bridge
Conrail - Hudson River Bridge(Poughkeepsie)
CNE - Hudson River Bridge
PC - Hudson River Bridge (Poughkeepsie) - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.71063, -73.94619 (decimal degrees)
41°42'38" N, 73°56'46" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/587669/4618184 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Poughkeepsie
- Inventory numbers
- NY 7005330 (New York State bridge identification number)
NRHP 79001577 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 25967 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 24, 2017: Updated by Matthew: “State Park Bridge” is unnecessary as well as “massive” in the design
- November 20, 2016: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- November 6, 2016: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added categories "Pin-connected", "Riveted"
- August 23, 2014: New photos from Janis Ford
- April 2, 2014: Updated by Nathan Holth: Fixed span length.
- November 18, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added Into
- August 13, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added category "Railroad"
- October 3, 2009: Bridge now open to pedestrians
- April 19, 2009: Posted HAER photos
Related Bridges
- Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge (Upstream)
- Mid Hudson Bridge (Downstream)
Sources
- Walkway Over the Hudson
- HAER NY-131 - Poughkeepsie Bridge, Spanning Hudson River, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, NY
- Wikipedia
- Luke
- Nathan Holth
- Andrew Raker
- Janis Ford
- Dana and Kay Klein
Comments
Walkway Over The Hudson State Park Bridge
According to Wikipedia, the longest span is "2 × 548 feet" -
548 X 2 = 1,096
That's probably not the proper way to measure that, though
Walkway Over The Hudson State Park Bridge
Not sure where the reported 1,096 span length for this bridge is coming from. This was reported to be shorter of a span than Young's High Bridge in Kentucky so would assume the largest span is less than 551 feet.
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Hmm... that makes sense. Will fix to make it read 548 feet.