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| HAER CONN,6-NEWLO,12- 1. VIEW, LOOKING WEST, SHOWING BRIDGE IN CLOSED POSITION - New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Shaw's Cove Bridge, Spanning Shaw's Cove, New London, New London County, CT Photos from Survey HAER CT-24 |
Since the bridge is low ("3 feet at mean high water and 6 feet at mean low water" [FederalRegister_shaw]), it must open quite frequently in the non-Winter months when the marina in Shaw Cove is full.
In fact, it sounds like they will stop an Amtrak train for a recreatoinal boat to ensure a maximum delay of 10 minutes from 5am to 10pm during the months of Apr-Nov. [FederalRegister_regulations]
The horizontal clerance is 70'. [WaterwayGuide]
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| HAER CONN,6-NEWLO,12- 9. PORTAL ELEVATION DETAIL WITH BRIDGE IN OPEN POSITION |
Significance: "The Shaw's Cove Bridge is a forged steel rim-bearing
swing bridge. It is a single-span, pin-connected
Pratt through truss with thin diagonal eye-bars
serving as tension members. It is significant as part
of the transportation link in the shoreline route of
the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and as
an individual engineering solution to the need to
provide dependable rail service while accommodating
river navigation." There have been plans to replace it since at least 1983. I wonder what the clearance of the new bridge would be. [HAER_data]
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| River Rail Photo posted Sticker Cars. On the afternoon of Sunday October 8, 2023, Kawasaki built M8 9365 led Shore Line East Train 3645, seen crossing Shaw's Cove in New London, Connecticut on the way to New Haven, Connecticut. Of the more than 500 M8s purchased by MTA Metro-North Railroad and the Connecticut Department of Transportation, generally 12 are assigned to Shore Line East Service since May of 2022. These cars have their third rail shoes removed for clearance purposes and recently have had a "CT Rail - Shore Line East" sticker placed over the Metro-North logo. [This train had just crossed the Thames River Bridge.] Doug Kendall: Nice touch catching the Orient Point ferry coming in at right... Phill Inokeechobeefl: Doug Kendall Actually called the Cross Sound Ferry I was on one of them every Friday and Sunday for years going to Orient to work on a Lobster boat from there. |
The Cross Sound Ferry is a shortcut to Long Island.
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