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NS - Delaware River Bridge (CNJ)

Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and Warren County, New Jersey

Photos 

Photo taken by Owl's Flight Photography

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

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BH Photo #240183

Map 

Street Views 

Facts 

Overview
Fishbelly deck truss bridge over Delaware River on Norfolk Southern Railway
Location
Phillipsburg, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and Warren County, New Jersey
Status
Open to traffic
Builders
- American Bridge Co. of New York (Edgemoore Plant)
- Central Iron & Steel of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Fabricator)
- Lukens Iron & Steel of Coatesville, Pennsylvania (Fabricator)
- Pencoyd Iron Works of Pencoyd, Pennsylvania (Fabricator)
- Slatington Rolling Mill Co. of Slatington, Pennsylvania (Fabricator)
Railroads
- Central Railroad of New Jersey (CNJ)
- Conrail (CR)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
Design
Pratt deck truss
Also called
CNJ - Delaware River Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.68780, -75.20227   (decimal degrees)
40°41'16" N, 75°12'08" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/482908/4504120 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Easton
Inventory number
BH 49140 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

American Bridge Co. (1,561)
Built 1901 (555)
Built during 1900s (7,431)
Central Iron & Steel (2)
Central Railroad of New Jersey (113)
Conrail (1,665)
Deck truss (1,826)
Easton, Pennsylvania (25)
Fishbelly Deck Truss (8)
Girder (10,710)
Have street view (27,708)
Lukens Iron & Steel (2)
New Jersey (1,645)
Norfolk Southern Railway (2,043)
Northampton County, Pennsylvania (128)
Open (40,253)
 Owned by railroad (12,955)
Pencoyd Iron Works (33)
Pennsylvania (5,498)
Phillipsburg, New Jersey (25)
Pin-connected (4,043)
Plate girder (8,336)
Pratt deck truss (372)
Pratt truss (9,656)
Railroad (16,082)
Riveted (2,243)
Slatington Rolling Mill Co. (2)
State line crossing (877)
Through girder (4,004)
Truss (33,867)
Warren County, New Jersey (153)

Update Log 

  • May 3, 2020: New Street View added by Geoff Hubbs
  • May 2, 2020: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
  • December 8, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • October 8, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • May 28, 2017: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
  • November 6, 2015: Updated by Luke: Added info from the HAER
  • September 26, 2012: Photo imported by Luke Harden
  • July 19, 2011: Added by Daniel Hopkins

Sources 

  • Daniel Hopkins - chimera [at] clovermail [dot] net
  • Luke
  • HAER PA-543 - Lehigh Valley Railroad, Delaware River Bridge, Spanning Delaware River, south of Lehigh River, Easton, Northampton County, PA
  • Geoff Hubbs
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Comments 

NS - Delaware River Bridge (S)
Posted October 8, 2019, by Geoff Hubbs (geoffrey [dot] hubbs [at] att [dot] net)

In BH Photo #240184 the former LV RR bridge to the left is abandoned; former CNJ RR bridge to the right is now used by Norfolk Southern