NH - Lyman Viaduct
Photos
Facts
- Overview
- Buried Deck truss bridge over Dickinson Creek on former New Haven, Middletown and Willimantic Railroad in Colchester
- Location
- Colchester, New London County, Connecticut
- Status
- Filled in
- History
- Built 1871-73, buried by fill in 1912-13, railroad abandoned in 1965
- Builders
- - Edward W. Serrell of London, England, United Kingdom (engineer)
- Phoenix Iron Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (iron manufacturer)
- Railroads
- - Boston & New York Air-Line Railroad (B&NY)
- New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic Railroad (NHM&W)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Design
- Wrought iron deck truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 1,100.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on August 21, 1986
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.56430, -72.44996 (decimal degrees)
41°33'51" N, 72°26'60" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/712631/4604543 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Moodus
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 86002729 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 48763 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 1, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Corrected truss type to "Othe"r, as Post Deck Truss is not among the categories avaliable.
- August 1, 2013: New photo from Jacob P. Bernard
- April 20, 2013: New photos from Jacob P. Bernard
- June 28, 2012: New photo from Jacob P. Bernard
- May 12, 2011: Added by Jacob P. Bernard
Sources
- Jacob P. Bernard
- Wikipedia
- NRHP photos and info
- Photos by Nicholas Zabawar
- Luke
Comments
You have painted a rather humorous picture in my mind :^)
We'll need buckets....
I say we...The entire Bridgehunter Nation...Don shovels and dig that sucker out!!! ;-)
No worries. I came across it while doing a category search so I thought I'd ask.
I might have been half-asleep when I made the edit, because I can't figure out how I'd have thought this was a post truss either...
Luke,
I did a category search on Post trusses and this bridge came up. I'm not sure how this is a Post truss. To me, it looks like the South American viaduct built by Phoenix that incorporates the Fink trusses (minus the multi-panel Finks of course). I didn't want to change it in case I'm missing something.
That said, it is absolutely amazing that the entire 1870's structure, Phoenix Columns and all, remains intact under a gigantic mass of fill!
Regards,
Art S.
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I grew up swimming in the river that flowed under this Viaduct. We would jump off the Concrete structure, but around 2013 they filled the pond in with cement.. No one ever told us there was a 19th century bridge there. We all assumed it was just a giant mound of sand. The expanse is mind boggling and it took a LONG time to get down to the bottom of that hill.