NJTR = New Jersey Transit
It "replaced an older swing span from 1901 on the site, which had been damaged by shifting currents....The current drawbridge schedule at Upper Hack (as stated by U.S. Coast Guard, 33 CFR 117.723) allows the bridge to open on signal unless the bridge tender is at the nearby HX Draw on the Bergen County Line upstream." [Facebook page sidebar]
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| Photo from mapio.net via BridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) |
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| mapio.net |
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| Street View |
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| Jake D. Oster Photography posted Upper Hack Lift Jake Oster shared |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Jake's post |
Built in 1959, replaced a 1901 swing bridge. Originally DL&W, now NJTR.
The DL&W had two bridges over the Hackensack within a couple of miles of each other. Thus the names Upper Hack ("U") and Lower Hack ("L"). "H" marks Erie's HX Bridge.
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| Satellite plus Paint |
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| Jake Oster posted, cropped Taken From A NJ Transit- Bergen County Line Train |
In the second-to-last image (satellite), the red U identifies the wrong bridge. The U stands next to the HX bascule draw, whose double tracks go NNW into Lyndhurst. The next bridge downriver, whose single track passes NW into Lyndhurst and there skirts Richard W. DeKorte Park, is the actual Upper Hack vertical lift bridge.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the correction. I replaced the image.
DeleteDennis: Now correct and entirely clear, BUT I would restore the original, more expansive satellite image, because there is great value in showing both the HX bascule draw and the not-far-downriver Upper Hack vertical lift in the same image field. [Nota bene: no such satellite image appears in the HX bascule draw site.]
DeleteI added the HX bridge back into the satellite image. I don't normally include a satellite image because I provide a satellite link at the top of most of my notes. But I needed to clarify the Upper vs. Lower Bridges in my mind.
DeleteJust to be sure my comment is entirely correct, the double track coming off the HX bascule draw continues NNW into East Rutherford, NJ, not Lyndhurst. Downstream, the single track from the Upper Hack vertical lift bridge does pass NW into Lyndhurst.
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