Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — LONGEST STEEL BRIDGE. [ARTICLE]

LONGEST STEEL BRIDGE.

Blew Hell Gate Structure to Be Three Mile* Long. Another step in the progress of the Pennsylvania railroad’s New York tunnel extension was taken recently when plans for the East river bridge of the New York connecting railroad were submitted to the municipal art commission for its approval. This bridge will form part of * steel viaduct more than three miles long, connecting the New York, New Ha-ven-and Hartford railroad system in the Bronx with the Long Island and the Pennsylvania. It will be the longest and heaviest steel bridge in the world. Eighty thousand tons of steel will be used in its construction. It will carry four railroad tracks imbedded in stone ballast so as to render the structure noiseless. Plans for the bridge over the waters of the Hell gate show a steel arch span of 1,000 feet between abutments. These abutments are.stone towers dividing the arch bridge proper from the steel viaducts that form approaches to it. The towers will rise to a, height of 200 feet and will contain rooms needed for railroad operation. The tracks themselves will be 140 feet above the water.