NJT4272 wrote:What may be happening here with this claim is the mix up of two completely unrelated things that just happen to be in the vicinity of RIVER.
A good many years ago now, The Victory Bridge - the Route 35 crossing over the Raritan River, was replaced. The original bridge was a center swing just like RIVER is. The old Victory Bridge steel center span was placed on a barge, floated through RIVER, and down to South America where they actually re-used it somewhere down there!
Im not sure about that Jeff, unless they disassembled the swing span of the Victory Bridge piece by piece, I remember seeing it get smaller and smaller every day til it was no longer there?
I remember it being one of the last parts of the old bridge standing, as this pic on the NJDOT site shows
http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/c ... 0043lg.jpg
http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/c ... hotos.shtm
But im pretty sure when they were removing it, it was dismantled and scrapped, and not floated away
BTW, while im a bit of a "Bridge Buff" and like old bridges, the old Victory Bridge is one bridge i was very glad to see go......that was a death trap...I rode over it only once on my motorcycle.....ooohhh man....bad idea. Just like im not going to shed a tear when the Route 7 Wittpenn Bridge goes away......thats another one that Id love to take the torch to myself....