Bridge L-158

41.296388888889 - 73.6825Koordinaten: 41 ° 17 ' 47 " N, 73 ° 40' 57 " W

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Abandoned New York Central Railroad

Muscoot reservoir

Bridge L -158 is a disused railway bridge over the Muscoot reservoir near Goldens Bridge, New York in the United States. She served the New York Central Railroad route from Goldens Bridge to Lake Mahopac.

The bridge was originally built to carry trains of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad on the Rondout Creek in Kingston. The iron bridge was built in 1904 converted to its present location.

Since 1960, the building is unused, and the rails were removed. It is the only remaining double- crossed Whipple truss railroad bridge in New York. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 and is the only bridge structure completely lying in Westchester County in the register.

Location

The bridge crosses a bay of the lake, about a mile west of the Goldens Bridge station on the Metro-North Harlem Line and Interstate 684, on the border between the Towns of Lewisboro and Somers in the east to the west. The New York State Route 138 crosses the reservoir about 150 m to the north.

The area around the bridge is overgrown with trees and shrubs belonging to the water protection area surrounding the lake, and all this belongs, as well as the bridge itself the New York City Department of Environmental Protection. The course of the previous path link is still visible on both sides of the bridge.

Building

Both trusses are 49 m long and consist of nine identical fields. The grid is 9.6 m deep. The bridge is located on two abutments of concrete, approximately 3.5 m above the mean water level.

The Phoenix -pillars and the upper band and the supports of the structure connected with bolts is in the upper range of wrought iron. The posts at the end and the upper band being connected with six flanged elements of cast iron, which are riveted together. The intermediate vertical post and the lateral struts each have four fasteners.

History

The bridge was originally the smallest of three spans of a 360 m long viaduct of the important railway route New York - Albany "West Shore Line" at the mouth of the Rondout Creek in Kingston. That building was built in 1883 by Clarke, Reeves & Company, a branch of the seated Philadelphia Phoenix Iron Works. The original building was 8.8 m wide, led two tracks over the river and was listed in the New York Central Railroad as a bridge 141.

To 1904, the city government of New York City began to buy in the catchment area of the Croton River country, to clear and impound water to ensure water supply to the city. According to the agreement with the city, the railway companies were required to bridge flooded area at their own expense. The railway company was therefore 1904 at Rondout Creek to build a new bridge, which could bridge the river as a whole with a single main span.

The NYC decided to bring parts of the bridge number 141 about eighty kilometers to the south and reuse them in the new reservoir, where they now served as a bridge L -158 for the spur track after the previous Mahopac New York and Harlem Railroad. This branch line, originally built by the New York and Mahopac Railroad, served in the 19th century, the connection of a summer resort. Because it is this was only a single track line, the bridge with a reduced width of 4.9 m was rebuilt.

The operation of traffic on the spur track after Mahopac took place until 1960. The tracks were eventually dismantled, but the bridge itself remained standing. 1976 noted an assessment team for the Historic American Engineering Record, that she was apart from the lack of use and maintenance, in good condition. Its location on the water supply of New York City usable land, to which access is severely limited, has its historic preservation also makes it easier.