Rahway River Bridge Explained

Bridge Name:Rahway River Bridge
Carries:Northeast Corridor
Crosses:Rahway River
Locale:Rahway
Union County, New Jersey
Owner:New Jersey Transit
Engineering:A.C. Shard
Design:Closed-spandrel arch
Material:stone, concrete
Length:180feet
Width:120feet
Mainspan:60feet
Builder:Keystone State Construction
Complete:1915
Coordinates:40.6091°N -74.2737°W

The Rahway River Bridge is a rail bridge over the Rahway River, in Rahway, Union County, New Jersey, U.S., a few blocks north of Rahway station, on the Northeast Corridor (NEC).

The arch bridge was built circa 1915 by the Pennsylvania Railroad[1] [2] at the time it was widening and elevating the tracks on a viaduct[3] on its mainline through New Jersey, a project that had been initiated in 1901.[4]

The bridge carries the NEC and is located at MP 19.13 of the New York Division. It is used by Amtrak, including Northeast Regional and Keystone Service, and New Jersey Transit's Northeast Corridor Line and North Jersey Coast Line, which junction near Union Tower to the south.

The bridge was documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1977.[5] It is part of the unlisted Pennsylvania Railroad New York to Philadelphia Historic District (ID#4568), designated in 2002 by the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Office.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Amtrak - Rahway River Bridge. Bridgehunter.com. November 28, 2017.
  2. Northeast Corridor Improvement Project: Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 1. Federal Railroad Administration . 1978. November 28, 2017.
  3. Web site: Baer . T. . A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context (1915) . November 29, 2017 .
  4. News: Pennsylvania Railroad's New Improvements; In Five Years Tracks Will Be Elevated Through All Cities on the New York Division . The New York Times . December 10, 1901 . November 29, 2017.
  5. https://www.loc.gov/item/nj0939/ HAER NJ-40
  6. Web site: New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places . New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. December 5, 2017.