Seabrook Railroad Bridge
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Seabrook Railroad Bridge | |
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 NS Virginian Heritage at Seabrook Bridge | |
| Coordinates | 30°01′53″N 90°02′04″W / 30.03136°N 90.03439°W |
| Carries | railroad tracks |
| Crosses | Industrial Canal |
| Locale | New Orleans |
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The Seabrook Railroad Bridge is a bascule bridge in New Orleans, Louisiana running adjacent to the Seabrook Bridge. It is often confused with this vehicular bridge to the north, officially called the Senator Ted Hickey Bridge; therefore, it is commonly called the Seabrook Railroad Bridge, that now carries only trains across the canal. The bridge has a horizontal clearance of 79 feet (24 m) with unlimited vertical clearance when fully retracted.
The Norfolk Southern Railway's Seabrook Railroad Bridge is located north of New Orleans on Lake Pontchartrain, on the lake (north) side of the Seabrook Sector Gate Complex, and the terminus of a part of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway called the Inner Harbor-Navigational Canal (IH-NC), locally referred to as the Industrial Canal, that connects Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi River.[1]
