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Walden Upper Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Lenticular deck truss bridge over Wallkill River on West Main Street in Walden
- Location
- Walden, Orange County, New York
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- Design
- Main span: Pin-connected, 10-panel Lenticular deck truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.56119, -74.19415 (decimal degrees)
41°33'40" N, 74°11'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/567195/4601370 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Walden
- Inventory number
- BH 74485 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 30, 2020: New photo from Chester Gehman
- November 26, 2016: Added by Jacob P. Bernard
Sources
- Jacob P. Bernard
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
This is a nice find, its a shame it isn't extant! With strut bracing in the first panel it puts construction around the the time of the 2nd patent on the design, so I'd guess within a couple of years of 1885 as the birthdate for this one.
Note that the strut bracing on the main span is aligned against the end of the approach deck span, and that there appears to be a brace beneath the approach span from abutment to end of the main span. Its interesting as the otherwise quite similar Livermore Falls Bridge didn't have these details.