Rahway River Bridge

Rahway River Bridge
Rahway River Bridge
Coordinates	40°36′33″N 74°16′25″W / 40.60914°N 74.27366°W
Carries	Northeast Corridor
Crosses	Rahway River
Locale	Rahway; Union County, New Jersey
Owner	New Jersey Transit
Characteristics
Design	Closed-spandrel arch
Material	Stone, concrete
Total length	180 feet (55 m)
Width	120 feet (37 m)
Longest span	60 feet (18 m)
History
Engineering design by	A.C. Shard
Constructed by	Keystone State Construction
Construction end	1915
Location

The Rahway River Bridge is a rail bridge over the Rahway River, in Rahway, Union County, New Jersey, U.S., a few blocks north of Rahway station, on the Northeast Corridor (NEC).

The arch bridge was built circa 1915 by the Pennsylvania Railroad^[1]^[2] at the time it was widening and elevating the tracks on a viaduct^[3] on its mainline through New Jersey, a project that had been initiated in 1901.^[4]

The bridge carries the NEC and is located at MP 19.13 of the New York Division. It is used by Amtrak, including Northeast Regional and Keystone Service, and New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor Line and North Jersey Coast Line, which junction near Union Tower to the south.

The bridge was documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1977.^[5] It is part of the unlisted Pennsylvania Railroad New York to Philadelphia Historic District (ID#4568), designated in 2002 by the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office.^[6]

References

^ "Amtrak - Rahway River Bridge". Bridgehunter.com. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
^ Northeast Corridor Improvement Project: Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 1 (Report). Federal Railroad Administration. 1978. Retrieved November 28, 2017.
^ Baer, T. "A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context (1915)" (PDF). Retrieved November 29, 2017.
^ "Pennsylvania Railroad's New Improvements; In Five Years Tracks Will Be Elevated Through All Cities on the New York Division" (PDF). The New York Times. December 10, 1901. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
^ HAER NJ-40
^ "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved December 5, 2017.

External links

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NJ-40, "Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between Pennsylvania/New Jersey & New Jersey/New York State Lines, Newark, Essex County, NJ", 37 photos, 4 photo caption pages

[1] "Amtrak - Rahway River Bridge". Bridgehunter.com. Retrieved November 28, 2017.

[2] Northeast Corridor Improvement Project: Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 1 (Report). Federal Railroad Administration. 1978. Retrieved November 28, 2017.

[3] Baer, T. "A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context (1915)" (PDF). Retrieved November 29, 2017.

[4] "Pennsylvania Railroad's New Improvements; In Five Years Tracks Will Be Elevated Through All Cities on the New York Division" (PDF). The New York Times. December 10, 1901. Retrieved November 29, 2017.

[5] HAER NJ-40

[NJRHP-6] "New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places". New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved December 5, 2017.

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