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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.
- 978 feet (298 m)
- 17,000 feet (3.2 mi; 5.2 km)
- March 9, 1917; 106 years ago
The Hell Gate Line is the portion of Amtrak's high-speed Northeast Corridor between Harold Interlocking in Sunnyside, Queens, and Shell Interlocking in New Rochelle, New York, within the New York metropolitan area.
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30 de mar. de 2017 · Often described in glowing superlatives, the Hell Gate Bridge was the longest steel arch bridge in the world when completed in 1916 and instantly became an icon of American railroading. The bridge’s opening also largely marked the completion of the Amtrak Northeast Corridor (NEC) as we know it today, providing an all-rail route ...
El puente, situado en la ciudad de Nueva York, cruza el Hell Gate, un estrecho del East River localizado entre Astoria en Queens y las islas Randalls y Wards en Manhattan. Es el más grande de los tres puentes que forman el complejo Hell Gate.
Amtrak is coordinating with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to support the Penn Station Access Project on the Hell Gate Line. This project will transform the region by constructing four new Metro-North stations in the Bronx and allowing Metro-North trains to travel to New York Penn Station for the first time.
12 de mar. de 2024 · Presently, the bridge is owned and operated by Amtrak, America's leading intercity passenger train service. It is a critical component in Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, the busiest railroad in the country, linking principal cities from Washington, D.C., to Boston.
The bridge carries two tracks of Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor and one freight track across the Hell Gate, a strait of the East River, between Astoria in Queens, and Randalls and Wards Islands in Manhattan. Hell Gate Bridge seen circa 1917. Photo from the Detroit Publishing Co. collection at the Library of Congress.
