Delair Bridge
39.98235 - 75.0691Koordinaten: 39 ° 58 ' 56.5 "N, 75 ° 4' 8.8" W
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New Jersey Transit Atlantic City Line and Conrail
The Delair Bridge is a Eisenbahnhub - and - former swing bridge across the Delaware, which leads over from Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania to Pennsauken, New Jersey. It lies about 8.7 km as the crow northeast of downtown Philadelphia and just south of the Betsy Ross Bridge to the New Jersey State Route 90
The steel truss bridge is a total of 4,396 feet ( 1339.9 m ) and without ramps 1,943 feet ( 592.2 m) long, has a regular vertical clearance of 50 feet (15.24 m) and carries two tracks. The vertical lift bridge has a clearance of 542 feet ( 165.2 m ), the maximum vertical clearance is 135 feet ( 41.15 m).
The Delair Bridge was the first fixed crossing of the lower Delaware at all. The name Delair comes from the district on New Jerseyer page, which was located directly at the bridge driveway. The area is now called Delair Junction.
The bridge was 1895-96 by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR ), first built as a swing bridge. Since the width of the river, the tidal range and the swampy ground hampered the facility of foundations, the openings had to be very broad. These required the strong ship traffic as large as possible headroom. We finally opted for a bridge of steel truss with four openings, as seen from the west third opening served as a movable element. This was mounted centrally and 323 feet ( 98.45 m ) long.
In the 1950s, the United States Army Corps of Engineers planned as a waterway expand the lower Delaware on. For this purpose, a clear bridge width was requested by at least 500 feet, for which the existing mobile element would have been too narrow. Thus, the second opening of the bridge was converted into a lift bridge and put the rotating element out of service.
The bridge is mainly traveled by freight trains. In passenger transport since 1989, leads the Atlantic City Line from Philadelphia to Atlantic City over the bridge.
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- Historic American Engineering Record: Pennsylvania & New Jersey Railroad, Delaware River Bridge, Spanning Delaware River, south of Betsy Ross Bridge ( State Route 90), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA. in: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress), Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, DC 20540 United States (English)
- Railway bridge in the United States
- Steel Bridge
- Truss bridge
- Built in the 1890s
- Building in Philadelphia
- Traffic (Philadelphia )
- Bridge in Pennsylvania
- Bridge in New Jersey
- Delaware River
- Camden County (New Jersey)