Rating:
46692
{56}%
6 votes
L&NE - Lehigh Gap Bridge
Photos
Photo provided by Wes B
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BH Photo #317453
Description
Built for the Lehigh & New England Railroad, which carried zinc from across the the Leigh Gap sides to the Palmerton side.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Baltimore deck truss bridge over the Lehigh River on Lehigh & New England Railroad
- Location
- Palmerton, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, and Carbon County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Removed
- History
- Built 1912; Abandoned 1961; Removed 1967
- Railroad
- - Lehigh & New England Railroad (LNE)
- Design
- Baltimore deck truss
Warren deck truss approaches
- Dimensions
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Total length: 1,076.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.78863, -75.61093 (decimal degrees)
40°47'19" N, 75°36'39" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/448455/4515472 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Palmerton
- Inventory number
- BH 46692 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 11, 2022: New photo from Stewart Edwin Beitler
- February 16, 2022: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- April 26, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- February 28, 2015: Updated by Luke: Added image posted to the forum by Wes B. + info
- August 9, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Added category "Railroad"
- February 6, 2012: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Removed category "Railroad" as it is a lost bridge
- July 8, 2011: New photos from Daniel Hopkins
- April 19, 2011: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Corrected the type of cargo the railroad carried, it was zinc not coal
- December 23, 2010: New Street View added by Daniel Hopkins
- December 2, 2010: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Updated the history and information
- October 28, 2010: Updated by Daniel Hopkins: Updated information
- October 26, 2010: Added by Daniel Hopkins
Sources
- Daniel Hopkins - chimera [at] clovermail [dot] net
- Luke
- Flickr - Donald Furler 1946 photo
- Flickr - Image of remaining piers + Info
- Flickr - Postcard
- Geoff Hubbs
- Stewart Edwin Beitler - stubear0430 [at] gmail [dot] com
This was the Lehigh and New England Railroad Trestle, mostly iron, not concrete. I'm not sure when it was constructed but it was dismantled in 1967.