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AMTK - Anacostia River Bridge

Washington, District of Columbia

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Amtrak Anacostia River Bridge

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Photo taken by Wikimedia Commons user Antony-22 in November 2016

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

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BH Photo #474088

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Facts 

Overview
Pony/through plate girder bridge over Anacostia River on Amtrak Northeast Corridor
Location
Washington, District of Columbia
Status
Open to railroad traffic
History
Built 1905; damaged by storms in 1933 and subsquently repaired
Railroads
- Amtrak (AMTK)
- Northeast Corridor (NEC)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR)
Design
Steel through plate girder
Dimensions
Total length: 360.0 ft.
Recognition
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.91701, -76.94360   (decimal degrees)
38°55'01" N, 76°56'37" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/331497/4309363 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 89632 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Amtrak (574)
Anacostia River (8)
Built 1905 (824)
Built during 1900s (7,681)
District of Columbia (75)
Girder (11,222)
NR-eligible (4,117)
Northeast Corridor (156)
Open (41,013)
 Owned by railroad (13,566)
Penn Central Railroad (1,544)
Pennsylvania Railroad (1,033)
Plate girder (8,770)
Railroad (16,518)
Through girder (4,210)
Total length 250-500 feet (5,542)
Washington, District of Columbia (75)

Update Log 

  • June 18, 2020: New photo from Nick Boppel

Sources 

  • Nick Boppel - nickboppel01 [at] gmail [dot] com

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