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CNJ - Lehigh River Bridge (Hokendauqua)

Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and Northampton County, Pennsylvania

Photos 

CNJ - Lehigh River Bridge

Photo taken by FavoriteSightsSounds

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #465633

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Abandoned deck truss bridge over Lehigh River and LVRR on CNJ RR
Location
Coplay, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Status
Derelict/abandoned
Builders
- Phoenix Bridge Co. of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
- Phoenix?
Design
Deck truss and through truss with Phoenix Columns
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.67440, -75.48769   (decimal degrees)
40°40'28" N, 75°29'16" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/458782/4502727 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 88087 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Abandoned (3,645)
Coplay, Pennsylvania (1)
Deck truss (1,728)
Have street view (26,928)
Lehigh County, Pennsylvania (108)
Northampton County, Pennsylvania (121)
Pennsylvania (5,316)
Phoenix Bridge Co. (187)
 Phoenix columns (73)
Phoenix? (5)
Pin-connected (3,900)
Pratt deck truss (356)
Pratt truss (9,292)
Skewed (4,906)
Truss (32,768)

Update Log 

  • October 29, 2020: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
  • May 2, 2020: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
  • February 6, 2020: Updated by Art Suckewer: Added categories "Pin-connected", "Phoenix columns", "Phoenix Bridge Co.", "Skewed"
  • February 5, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs

Sources 

  • Geoff Hubbs
  • Art Suckewer - Asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com
  • Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com
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Comments 

Northampton & Bath RR - Lehigh River Bridge
Posted February 5, 2020, by John Marvig (marvigj27 [at] gmail [dot] com)

Speaking of this bridge, this one looks very old. Possibly late 1880s to the early 1890s?

Northampton & Bath RR - Lehigh River Bridge
Posted February 5, 2020, by George A Oakley (Georgeoakley49 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

While looking at this bridge I saw an abandoned truss on this abandoned rail line where the rail line stops at the Ironton trail.Is this bridge on Bridgehunter because I don't see it.