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Gale Avenue Bridge
Description
"Newest of 12 double-intersection Warren pony trusses in the MDPW database -- all 12 were built as highway overpasses over the Boston & Albany RR. Double-intersection Warren trusses are not common nationally and pony truss examples, in particular, are quite rare (only 2 other examples, both in Ohio, are presently known)."S.J. Roper, October 1986
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Double-intersection Warren pony truss bridge over Conrail Boston Line on Gale Avenue in Pittsfield
- Location
- Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1900; rehabilitated 1988
- Railroads
- - Boston & Albany Railroad (BA)
- Conrail (CR)
- New York Central Railroad (NYC)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Design
- Double-intersection Warren pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 65.9 ft.
Total length: 74.2 ft.
Deck width: 20.0 ft.
- Also called
- B&A Main Line Bridge No. 152.32
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.44392, -73.29133 (decimal degrees)
42°26'38" N, 73°17'29" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/640522/4700480 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Pittsfield West
- Inventory number
- BH 67237 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- Ian Martin
- Massachusetts Historical Commission
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