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LI - Long Beach Bridge (Old)
Photos
LIRR - Long Beach Bridge (Old)
Movable Bridge Engineering Book Terry L. Koglin
Photo taken by Douglas Butler in March 2013
BH Photo #285183
Description
Few Shear Pole swing type bridges like the Paulsboro bridge in New Jersey had little success of operation.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Deck girder bridge over Reynolds Channel on Long Island Railroad
- Location
- Long Beach, Nassau County, New York
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1912; Replaced 1988
- Railroads
- - Commuter Rail
- Long Island Railroad (LI)
- New York & Long Beach Railroad (NY&LB)
- Design
- Deck girder shear pole swing
- Also called
- NY&LB - Long Beach Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.59614, -73.66073 (decimal degrees)
40°35'46" N, 73°39'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/613320/4494788 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lawrence
- Inventory number
- BH 61317 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 19, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- November 17, 2015: Updated by Luke: Added information per forum comment by Eddie
- June 11, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler
Related Bridges
- LI - LEAD Drawbridge (Successor)
Sources
- Douglas Butler
- Luke
- The Long Island Rail Road: 1925-1975 by David Keller & Steven Lynch - Book
- Trainsarefun.com - Long Island Railroad - Long Beach - Imagery + Info
- Geoff Hubbs
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The deck girder shear pole bridge was constructed by the LIRR Co. in 1912.
The two bridge piers were concrete, and the bridge operated with two motors, one to lift the end less than an inch using cams under the struts and the other to operate the swing.
This bridge replaced an iron drawbridge. Prior to the iron bridge, a wooden draw crossed Wreck Lead that was constructed in 1880.