Old Railroad Bridge along 295

[afboone]

Gents, My son and I stopped along 295 today where an old railroad bridge is in the woods. We were by mile marker 53.8. The bridge has no marking on it and no rails. We looked all over to see if there was a company marking on it but couldn't find anything. The bridge is on the north bound side just passed where 295 crosses over the PA turnpike extension. Any one know who built this? and when did they stop using it?

Thanks in advance.

Steve B.

[afboone]

More pics.

[Jtgshu]

Interesting construction on that with the wooden approaches and supports with the steel girders in the middle!

[R36 Combine Coach]

Based on the NJDOT Burlington County map, it was a branch connecting the Camden & Amboy with Fort Dix.

[CJPat]

Looks like the west end of the Kinkora-Pemberton Branch that last ended with PennCen in about 1970.

There were several threads on this to include:
http://railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.ph ... ra#p958111

This thread gave the distances between stations.