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PW - Middletown Swing Bridge

Middlesex County, Connecticut

Photos 

Photo taken by Denimadept

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

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Facts 

Overview
Swing through truss bridge over the Connecticut River on the Connecticut Central Railroad in Middletown
Location
Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut
Status
Open to traffic
History
Replaced an earlier bridge at this location built in 1872.
Builder
- American Bridge Co. of New York
Railroads
- Boston & New York Air-Line Railroad (B&NY)
- Connecticut Central Railroad (CCCL)
- New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Railroad (NHM&W)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Providence & Worcester Railroad (PW)
Design
Bridge consists of five double-intersection Warrens with sub-struts. The center truss is the swing span, and has an inclined top chord. A sixth span, a deck plate girder, spans the southbound lanes of CT Route 9.
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 210.0 ft.
Total length: 1,180.2 ft.
Also called
PW - Connecticut River Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.56678, -72.64742   (decimal degrees)
41°34'00" N, 72°38'51" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/696157/4604351 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Middletown
Inventory numbers
CT 639 (Connecticut bridge number)
Bridge No. 9016R
BH 12149 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

American Bridge Co. (1,660)
Boston & New York Air-Line Railroad (17)
Built 1910 (1,206)
Built during 1910s (9,970)
Connecticut (838)
Connecticut Central Railroad (9)
Connecticut River (107)
Deck girder (6,303)
Double-intersection Warren through truss (183)
Double-intersection Warren truss (494)
Girder (11,169)
Have street view (28,893)
Inclined upper chord (10)
Middlesex County, Connecticut (65)
Middletown, Connecticut (15)
Movable (3,114)
 Navigable waterway (2,204)
New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Railroad (19)
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (529)
Open (40,968)
Owned by railroad (13,498)
Plate girder (8,724)
Portland, Connecticut (6)
Providence & Worcester Railroad (61)
Railroad (16,456)
Riveted (2,508)
Span length 175-250 feet (2,058)
Swing (1,561)
Through truss (16,773)
Total length 1000-2500 feet (1,994)
Truss (35,449)

Update Log 

  • May 11, 2017: New photos from Chester Gehman
  • September 6, 2015: Photo imported by Dave King
  • October 2, 2014: Updated by Chester Gehman: Added sixth span over Route 9
  • June 30, 2014: Updated by Chester Gehman: Added category "Riveted"
  • November 23, 2013: New Street View added by Luke Harden
  • August 22, 2013: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • January 26, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Navigable waterway", "Railroad", "Connecticut Central Railroad", "New York & Boston Air Line Railroad", "New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad", "Providence & Worcester Railroad"
  • March 19, 2011: Updated by J.P.: updated location

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Sources 

  • Wikipedia
  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Douglas Butler
  • Luke
  • Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • ConnDOT
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Comments 

Providence-Worcester Railroad Bridge
Posted May 15, 2013, by Charles (Charlesreenie [at] gmail [dot] com)

The bridge is open to traffic.

http://articles.courant.com/2010-11-03/community/hc-marteka-...

Connecticut Central Railroad Bridge
Posted September 5, 2007, by Howard Shubs (howard [at] shubs [dot] net)

If this is the bridge I think it is, just downstream from the Arrigoni Bridge, it's NOT open to traffic. On Wikipedia, it's known as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence_%26_Worcester_railro...