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The Hell Gate Bridge (originally the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge) is a railroad bridge in New York City, New York, United States.The bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and one freight track between Astoria, Queens, and Port Morris, Bronx, via Randalls and Wards Islands.
The Hell Gate Bridge was conceived in the early 1900s to link New York and the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) with New England and the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad (NH). [6] In June 1906, the NH applied for and received a franchise to operate trains from the northeastern suburbs of New York City to Pennsylvania Station in Midtown ...
Triborough Bridge (Suspension Bridge) 1936: 2,790 850: 8 lanes of I-278 (4 in each direction) Officially known as the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge Hell Gate Bridge: 1916: 1,020 310: 3 rail tracks (2 of Northeast Corridor, 1 of New York Connecting Railroad) Rikers Island Bridge: 1966: 4,200.0 1,280.16: 2 lanes of roadway: Only connects Rikers Island ...
The line begins at the Hell Gate Bridge over the East River. This is a massive bridge, with a main span of 1,017 feet (310 m) and a total length of over 17,000 feet (3.2 mi; 5.2 km). Continuing south, the line is on a high-level elevated viaduct over Astoria and Interstate 278 (Grand Central Parkway).
The "Tri-Borough Bridge", as it was called, would connect 125th Street in Manhattan, St. Ann's Avenue in the Bronx, and an as-yet-undetermined location in Queens. It would parallel the Hell Gate Bridge, a railroad bridge connecting Queens and the Bronx via Randalls and Wards Islands. [35]
[1]: 20 Although the PRR ultimately decided to build tunnels under the river rather than a bridge, the two companies continued their relationship. The PRR hired Lindenthal in 1904 to work on the New York Connecting Railroad and lead the Hell Gate Bridge project. The completed bridge was dedicated by Lindenthal and the PRR on March 9, 1917.
New York Connecting Railroad, Hell Gate Bridge: Extant Steel arch: 1916 1991 Amtrak Northeast Corridor: Hell Gate: Wards Island and Astoria: New York and Queens: NY-95: Erie Railway, Sawyer Creek Bridge Replaced Pratt truss: 1971
This became the Hell Gate Bridge, which was dedicated March 9, 1917. [131] The Hell Gate Bridge includes plate girder spans across both islands, as well as a through arch bridge across Hell Gate to the southeast. [328] [329] The bridge also includes an inverted bowstring truss section, with four 300-foot (91 m) long spans, across Little Hell ...