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NH - Gracey Avenue Overpass

New Haven County, Connecticut

Photos 

MW&CR Gracey Avenue Bridge

Meriden Waterbury & Connecticut River Railroad, Gracey Avenue trestle, Meriden CT.

Photo by Ronald Barnes

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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BH Photo #309990

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Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Abandoned steel stringer bridge over Gracey Avenue on New Haven Railroad
Location
Meriden, New Haven County, Connecticut
Status
Derelict/abandoned
History
Last used ca. 1966; line still owned by Suzio (York Hill Quarry)
Railroads
- Meriden, Waterbury & Connecticut River Railroad (MW&CR)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
Design
Steel stringer
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.55457, -72.79302   (decimal degrees)
41°33'16" N, 72°47'35" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/684051/4602674 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Meriden
Inventory number
BH 64909 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Abandoned (3,945)
Beam (16,987)
Connecticut (842)
Have street view (29,323)
Meriden, Connecticut (14)
Meriden, Waterbury & Connecticut River Railroad (4)
New Haven County, Connecticut (187)
 New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (529)
One-lane traffic (7,934)
Owned by federal government (1,292)
Railroad (16,559)
Skewed (5,025)
Steel stringer (6,750)
Stop Sign Controlled (6)

Update Log 

  • April 11, 2015: New photo from Ian Martin
  • December 21, 2014: New Street View added by Ian Martin

Sources 

  • Ian Martin

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