Eagle Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Hoosic River on NY 67
- Location
- Rensselaer County, New York, and Washington County, New York
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1933; rehabilitated 1977
- Design
- Polygonal Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 164.7 ft.
Total length: 171.9 ft.
Deck width: 24.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 14.6 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.95111, -73.39056 (decimal degrees)
42°57'04" N, 73°23'26" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/631288/4756642 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Eagle Bridge
- Average daily traffic (as of 2014)
- 2,923
- Inventory numbers
- NY 1029250 (New York State bridge identification number)
BH 26689 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of July 2015)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Good (7 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 69.5 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- April 28, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- January 10, 2014: New photo from CANALLER
- January 10, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Name Change
- November 1, 2011: New Street View added by James Baughn
- May 26, 2010: New photos from Brian McKee
Related Bridges
- Eagle Bridge (Old) (Predecessor)
Sources
- Brian McKee - bjmckee51 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Luke
- Dana and Kay Klein
Comments
Card on the scale model reads:
This is a 1/48 scale model of the - double lane burr truss - Eagle Bridge Covered Bridge built by R. W. (Bob) Raymond
Erected 1827 until 1899 It was replaced by the bridge with the metal eagles that serves Rt. 67 today.
Inside the Shushan CB museum, there is a scale model of the CB that was replaced by the Eagle metal bridge. We were told that a hunter had killed a real eagle & mounted him on the portal of the CB. That is where the bridge got its name & why there are eagles on the metal bridge today.
It is called Eagle Bridge, and the eagle emblem carried over from a predecessor bridge:
I wonder if this might not be called the Eagle Bridge. The story behind the adjacent town name is here:
http://www.hoosickhistory.com/shortstories/eaglebridgename.h...
Note also the ornament on the portal.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ny/rensselaer/1029250/
Thanks for the info, Janis!