Many a high truck has
struck this low Norfolk Southern railroad bridge on Franklin Avenue
at High Street in Nutley, New Jersey.
According to historian David
Wilson, this bridge was raised after a 1896 court case between the railroad
and trolley companies. A compromise was made to raise the railroad tracks
and lower the roadway so the heavy rail steam trains could pass above the
light rail trolleys.
The railroad tracks were originally at grade level. The
dirt fill from Franklin Avenue lowering was used to regrade the track bed
behind Ralph's Pizzeria and southward to the Passaic Avenue trestle which
was raised to keep the proper grade incline for the train.
The two bridges
and trestle on the Norfolk Southern Newark Branch in Nutley have been deemed
substandard in a recent market study by NJ Transit, and serve no use for any
potential passenger mass transit program for this abandoned right-of-way.
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