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Walden Upper Bridge

Orange County, New York

Photos 

Postcard

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BH Photo #370764

Map 

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)

Categories 

Deck truss (1,731)
Lenticular deck truss (4)
Lenticular truss (162)
Lost (24,723)
New York (4,402)
Orange County, New York (115)
Pin-connected (3,901)
Replaced by new bridge (16,571)
Truss (32,776)
Walden, New York (3)

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
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Walden Upper Bridge
Posted November 27, 2016, by Michael Quiet (mquiet [at] gmail [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.