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Crosses
  
Harlem River

Longest span
  
286 feet (87 m)

Construction started
  
1849

Total length
  
186 m

Location
  
Manhattan

Design
  
Railroad swing bridge

Clearance below
  
5 feet (1.5 m)

Opened
  
1900

Bridge type
  
Swing bridge

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Carries
  
Amtrak Empire Corridor (1 track)

Locale
  
Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City

Bodies of water
  
Harlem River, Spuyten Duyvil Creek

Similar
  
Broadway Bridge, University Heights Bridge, 145th Street Bridge, Henry Hudson Bridge, Madison Avenue Bridge

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The Spuyten Duyvil Bridge is a railroad swing bridge that spans the Spuyten Duyvil Creek between Manhattan and the Bronx, in New York City. The bridge, which carries Amtrak trains traveling along the Empire Corridor, is located at the northern tip of Manhattan where the Spuyten Duyvil Creek meets the Hudson River, approximately 1,000 feet (300 m) to the west of the Henry Hudson Bridge. It was built to carry two tracks but now carries only a single track on the east side of the bridge.

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A wooden railroad bridge across the Spuyten Duyvil was first constructed by the New York & Hudson River Railroad in 1849. The current steel bridge was designed by Robert Giles and constructed in 1900; the piers rest on pile foundations in the riverbed. Trains stopped running across the bridge in 1982 and the following year the bridge was damaged by a vessel and was left unable to close.

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The bridge was rehabilitated in the late 1980s and Amtrak's Empire Service began using the Spuyten Duyvil Bridge on April 7, 1991, following the completion of the Empire Connection. This involved the conversion of the abandoned West Side Line to accommodate passenger service and connect with Pennsylvania Station. Until then, Amtrak trains traveling between New York and Albany had utilized Grand Central Terminal.

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The bridge is used by approximately 30 trains a day and is opened over 1,000 times per year, primarily during the summer months for Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises and recreational vessels.

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Incidents

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  • On the evening of February 16, 2004, an 80-year-old woman mistakenly drove her car onto the bridge from the Bronx side of the river and was hit by a Penn Station-bound Amtrak train. Although the passenger train carried the automobile for a distance of 250 feet (76 m) along the tracks, the woman survived the crash.
  • During the early morning hours of October 24, 2010, a fire broke out on the bridge, suspending train service until later that evening.
  • A boat ran into the bridge at around 4:20pm on May 29, 2016, causing major delays on the Empire Line, as the bridge was required to be inspected before trains could use it again. No injuries were reported in the incident.

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    References

    Spuyten Duyvil Bridge Wikipedia
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