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The tourist train ran past the Hummocks station built in 2017 to the end of the track on June 15, 2021 to the Sakonnet River rail bridge site. This was the first Old Colony & Newport train past the derail about 200 feet (61 m) from the bridge's western pier. The last train from the previous operators on this segment was 1988.
The current bridge is a box girder bridge that opened in 2012 at a cost of $120 million (USD). The previous bridge was a truss bridge that was built in 1956 and demolished in 2012 due to structural deficiencies. The truss bridge had previously served as a replacement for the Stone Bridge, about 0.8 miles (1.3 km) to the south. It became part of ...
The Sakonnet River rail bridge was damaged in 1988 and removed in 2007, isolating the line from the national rail network. Despite this, the for-profit Newport Dinner Train began sharing the line in 1997, offering dinner trains and other tourist-based operations.
Sakonnet River: 3.9: 6.3: Sakonnet River Bridge: Tiverton: 4.2: 6.8: 4 – To Route 77 / Route 177 – Tiverton, Little Compton: Former northbound exit and southbound entrance: 4.4: 7.1: 5: 4: Route 77 south / Route 138 north to Route 177 – North Tiverton, Tiverton, Little Compton: Northern end of Route 138 concurrency; northern terminus of ...
Below is a list of all current and former crossings over the Sakonnet River. The list begins at the headwaters and goes downstream. Sakonnet River Rail Bridge (formerly Old Colony and Newport Railway), removed; Old Sakonnet River Bridge (RI 24/138) Replacement Sakonnet River Bridge; opened September 2012.
NJ Transit was not able to provided an estimated repair time as of Thursday at 1:30 p.m. Rail tickets and passes are being cross-honored by NJ Transit and private carrier buses, Hemphil said.
The new bridge will replace the 114-year old Portal Bridge, a swing bridge across the Hackensack River that often gets stuck. After 30-hour trip on the Hudson, the first arch for NJ Transit's rail ...
The River Subdivision (also known as the River Sub or River SD) is a major north–south rail corridor located between North Bergen, New Jersey and Ravena, New York, carries strictly freight trains and runs mostly along the shoreline or paralleling closely the west bank of the Hudson River. The River Subdivision is part of the CSX Albany ...