RE: (erielack) Gladstone Branch (NJ) bridge?

["Paul R. Tupaczewski" <paultup_@_optonline.net>]

There's no huge significance, other than this bridge is one of the few
remaining through-truss (and I believe it's pin-connected, too) bridges
left in NJ that's still in use...

	- Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net 
> [mailto:erielack-owner_@_lists.railfan.net] On Behalf Of A Samostie
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:14 PM
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Gladstone Branch (NJ) bridge?
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Group,
> 
> I rode the DL&W MUs on the Gladstone Branch once in the early 
> 1980s, but I'm not at all familiar with branch, nor with the 
> bridge.  Does anyone have a photo of it that they can submit 
> to the list?  What is its historical or architectural 
> significance in the annals of DL&W structures?
> 
> Cheers,
> Alan <quahog at sprint.ca>
> ELHS #3178
> 
> 
> DLW1155_@_aol.com wrote:
> > 
> > The activity you saw is the preliminary work for replacement of the 
> > famed Hogback Bridge. Much groundwork has to be done before the new 
> > span is put into place. NJ Transit announced its plan to 
> replace the 
> > current structure late last year. Sevral newspapers carried 
> the story. 
> > The actual removal of the old bridge and placement of the new span 
> > will be doen over a week end starting early on a Friday 
> evening after 
> > the last rush hour trains terminate and will go around the 
> clock to be 
> > ready for the Monday morning rush. No exact date has been 
> announced as 
> > yet.
> > 
> > NJT is looking to prserve the old bridge and has offered free of 
> > charge to anyone who can cart it away.
> > 
> > Al Holleuffer
> 
> 

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