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Hulett Street Viaduct
Schenectady County
,
New York
Photo
Public Domain: Published Prior to 1923
BH Photo #340178
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Facts
Overview
Lost Deck plate girder bridge over Interstate 890 on Hulett Street (Originally Schenectady Railway Co.)
Location
Schenectady
,
Schenectady County
,
New York
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1904; Converted to allow for general use 1913; Converted to road sometime after 1930; Replaced 1981
Builders
-
L.N. Cross
of New York City, New York (1913 general-use conversion)
-
Pennsylvania Steel Co.
of Steelton, Pennsylvania (Original construction)
Railroads
-
Interurban
-
Schenectady Railway Co.
(SRC)
Design
Deck plate girder
Dimensions
Total length: 625.0 ft.
Also called
Suicide Bridge
Cotton Hollow Viaduct
SRC - Cotton Factory Hollow Viaduct
Cotton Factory Hollow Viaduct
SRC - Cotton Hollow Viaduct
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.80231
,
-73.94353
(decimal degrees)
42°48'08" N, 73°56'37" W
(degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/586386/4739403
(zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Schenectady
Inventory number
BH 67014
(Bridgehunter.com ID)
Categories
Built 1904
(561)
Built during 1900s
(7,224)
Deck girder
(5,744)
Girder
(10,233)
Interstate 890
(1)
Interurban
(911)
L.N. Cross
(1)
Lost
(24,725)
Lost 1981
(90)
Lost during 1980s
(1,370)
New York
(4,402)
Pennsylvania Steel Co.
(155)
Plate girder
(7,922)
Rail-to-road
(342)
Railroad
(15,411)
Replaced by new bridge
(16,573)
Schenectady County, New York
(72)
Schenectady Railway Co.
(8)
Schenectady, New York
(40)
Steel Trestle
(151)
Tall Bridges
(324)
Total length 500-1000 feet
(2,871)
Update Log
October 21, 2015: New photo from Luke
May 22, 2015: Updated by Luke: Tweaked info
April 13, 2015: Example of a rail-to-road bridge
Sources
Luke
Gino's RailPage - SRC The Early Days
- Image + Info
The Polytechnic, Volumes 25-26 (1908) by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Book
Engineering-contracting, Volume 39
- Book
Municipal Journal & Public Works, Volume 34
- Book
The formal opening of the Russell Sage Laboratory by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Book
December 7, 1979 edition of the Schenectady Gazette - Google News
- Info
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