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South Carrollton Avenue Bridge (Pre 1923)
Description
The former bridge was a Overhead counterweight bascule bridge before the two concrete counterweight with the drive machinery in the middle along with towers removed and converted to a fixed span
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pony/through plate girder bridge over New Basin Canal on South Carrollton Avenue & New Orleans Public Service Incorporated
- Location
- New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- Railroads
- - New Orleans & Carrollton Railroad (NO&C)
- New Orleans Public Service Incorporated (NOPSI)
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +29.96788, -90.10752 (decimal degrees)
29°58'04" N, 90°06'27" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/779122/3318747 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- New Orleans East
- Inventory number
- BH 72234 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 19, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler