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Harbor Rail-Trail - Oswego River Bridge

Oswego County, New York

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Photo taken by Mark Plummer

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

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Description 

Note: Despite the trail being named after the New York, Ontario, & Western Railway, the line was actually a New York Central/Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad line.

Facts 

Overview
Warren deck truss bridge over Oswego River on O&W Railroad Pedestrian Promenade & Bikeway
Location
Oswego, Oswego County, New York
Status
Open to pedestrians only
Railroads
- New York Central Railroad (NYC)
- Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad (RW&O)
Design
Warren deck truss
Also called
NYC - Oswego River Bridge
RW&O - Oswego River Bridge
O&W Railroad Pedestrian Promenade & Bikeway - Oswego River Bridge
O&W Pedestrian Promenade & Bikeway - Oswego River Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+43.45445, -76.50763   (decimal degrees)
43°27'16" N, 76°30'27" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/378024/4812387 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Oswego West
Inventory number
BH 65545 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Deck girder (6,349)
Deck truss (1,952)
Girder (11,246)
Have street view (29,338)
New York (4,921)
New York Central Railroad (1,004)
Open to pedestrians (4,606)
Oswego County, New York (57)
Oswego, New York (6)
 Owned by city (6,121)
Plate girder (8,791)
Rail-to-trail (1,660)
Railroad (16,559)
Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad (17)
Truss (36,155)
Warren deck truss (679)
Warren truss (7,059)

Update Log 

  • January 4, 2022: New photos from Josh Schmid
  • September 17, 2017: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
  • December 27, 2016: New photo from Dave King
  • August 26, 2016: Photo imported by Dave King
  • January 17, 2015: New Street View added by Luke

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Harbor Rail-Trail - Oswego River Bridge
Posted September 17, 2017, by David Cranor (volcrano [at] gmail [dot] com)

Never mind. My error.

Harbor Rail-Trail - Oswego River Bridge
Posted September 17, 2017, by David Cranor (volcrano [at] gmail [dot] com)

That's the Oswegatchie River.

Harbor Rail-Trail - Oswego River Bridge
Posted January 17, 2015, by Luke

That's one hell of a misnomer.

Harbor Rail-Trail - Oswego River Bridge
Posted January 17, 2015, by Ian Martin

According to this link, (http://www.nyow.org/owremains_part1.pdf) this is actually a former NYC/RW&O connecting track to the NYO&W station, so I guess the trail's name isn't totally correct.