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New York Central Railroad 69th Street Transfer Bridge

New York County, New York
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Overview
Abandoned pony/through plate girder bridge over Hudson River on railroad
Location
Manhattan, New York County, New York
Status
Abandoned
History
Built 1911
Design
Pony/through plate girder
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 26, 2003
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.77923, -73.98959   (decimal degrees)
40°46'45" N, 73°59'23" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/585260/4514741 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Central Park
Inventory numbers
NRHP 03000577 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 50373 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Abandoned (1,372)
Built 1911 (457)
Built during 1910s (6,730)
Dock (1)
Girder (3,239)
Hudson River (23)
Manhattan, New York (3)
NR-listed (2,354)
New York (1,767)
 New York Central Railroad (60)
New York City, New York (139)
New York County, New York (68)
Owned by city (3,052)
Plate girder (2,251)
Preserved (652)
Railroad (4,075)
Through girder (1,135)

Update Log 

  • April 3, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Hudson River", "New York Central Railroad"
  • January 18, 2012: Updated by J.P.: Bridge is actually in New York County
  • December 1, 2011: Added by Luke Harden

Sources 

  • Luke Harden - lukemh9 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Wikipedia
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New York Central Railroad 69th Street Transfer Bridge
Posted December 1, 2011, by Gary Sprandel (jaidite [at] aol [dot] com)

That's not actually a bridge in the sense of a structure connecting one shore to another but is actually a car float loading bridge.

The overhead structure would raise the bridge to allow a car float (a barge with 2 to 3 rail tracks on it)to dock and maintain level loading as a locomotive spotted freight cars on the barge,once loaded a NYC tug boat would ferry the float to the other side.