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NS - Electric Avenue Overpass
Photo
View from south
Photo taken by Josh Schmid in December 2020
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)
BH Photo #487630
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Electric Avenue on Norfolk Southern Railway
- Location
- Blasdell, Erie County, New York
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1897
- Railroads
- - Buffalo Southern Railroad (BSOR)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
- Design
- Deck plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 39.7 ft.
Total length: 125.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.80271, -78.82893 (decimal degrees)
42°48'10" N, 78°49'44" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/677528/4741192 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Buffalo SE
- Inventory numbers
- NY 7708622 (New York State bridge identification number)
BH 57609 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 27, 2020: New photo from Josh Schmid
- August 23, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- August 17, 2015: Updated by Luke: Converted redundant entry into an entry for an unlisted bridge
- May 21, 2015: New photos from Douglas Butler
- September 3, 2013: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 15, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Mapped
- August 15, 2013: Added by Douglas Butler
Sources
- Douglas Butler
- Luke
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Josh Schmid
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I saw an abandoned truss bridge where the n/s rail crosses other railroad tracks between Electric Ave and Rte 5.Anybody know about this bridge?It's next to another truss bridge which is being used.