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Snyder Hollow Bridge
Description
A distinctive combination of low Pratt and high Warren truss bridges erected ten years apart. These two bridges reveal the evolution of iron truss bridge building, especially the shift from pin to bolted connection, in the late-nineteenth century.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Double-intersection Warren through truss bridge over Esopus Creek on Woodland Valley Road
- Location
- Ulster County, New York
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1883; Replaced 1998
- Builders
- - Carnegie Steel Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Iron/Steel Manufacturer)
- King Bridge Co. of Cleveland, Ohio (pony truss)
- Wrought Iron Bridge Co. of Canton, Ohio (through truss)
- Design
- Double-intersection Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 90.9 ft.
Total length: 181.1 ft.
Deck width: 13.5 ft.
- Also called
- Woodlawn Valley Road Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.08163, -74.32927 (decimal degrees)
42°04'54" N, 74°19'45" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/555477/4659057 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Phoenicia
- Average daily traffic (as of 2013)
- 563
- Inventory numbers
- NY 3347370 (New York State bridge identification number)
BH 51002 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
- Inspection report (as of September 2018)
- Overall condition: Fair
Superstructure condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Very Good (8 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 87.4 (out of 100)
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Update Log
- April 24, 2016: New photo from Art Suckewer
- January 18, 2012: Updated by J.P.: Added category "Pin-connected"
Sources
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- HAER NY-183 - Snyder Hollow Bridge, Woodland Valley Road, spanning Esopus Creek, Phoenicia, Ulster County, NY
- Art Suckewer - Asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com