Glimmer Glass Bridge Opening 7/30/17
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2017
- The Glimmer Glass Bridge is a cable lift bascule drawbridge built in 1898, making it one of the oldest drawbridges in New Jersey. It is also the only drawbridge in New Jersey, possibly along the entire east coast of the country, to use rolling counterweights to open and close the bascule span, earning it a spot in the National Register of Historic Places. The bridge is located in Manasquan and carries Brielle Road over the Glimmer Glass, the tidal inlet from which the bridge takes its name. During my time in the area this Sunday, I got the opportunity to see this old bridge open up to allow boat traffic to pass through.
The bridge's age easily shows through its design and the process of opening and closing it. For one thing, the drawbridge locks must be must be manually opened and closed by hand. Second, the rolling counterweight design results in the bridge being incredibly slow to open or close. Once unlocked, it takes over five minutes to fully open. In combination with the gates lowering to block the road and the need to change the locks manually, the whole process can cause traffic on Brielle Road to be halted for almost 15 minutes at a time. It took long enough that I actually stopped filming for a couple of minutes so that I could rest my arm. Thank goodness the e-bells at this bridge only sound when the gates are lowering or raising.
Nice! Imagine having a drawbridge with Safetran Type-1 Electronic Bells, LoL.
That would be pretty sweet, since those are the best e-bells.
Very interesting operation!
It really is. I love seeing drawbridges in action.
I've never seen an e-bell on a drawbridge before
The same e-bells are used on most bridges of the Welland Canal
I thought they primarily used WCH e-bells up there. Have they been replaced in recent years?
@@GenesisSanctuary I'm just going on their sound, so I wouldn't doubt an expert. I grew up near it (family worked on locks), and I'm old enough to remember the real bells and sirens they used to have
I never see a E-bell on a drawbridge and traffic light
Sounds like a Train is coming instead. HEY EVERYONE! A TRAIN ON A BOAT IS COMING!
Sirens/Railroads Of South Carolina you had me dead😂😂😂😂😅😅
Train on the water boat on the tracks
Those bells should be on drawbridges as well. HA!
General Signals Type 2 Electronic Bell
Wow I've never seen a drawbridge with an e-bell before
It's certainly unusual. The Ocean Avenue Bridge across the Shark River in Belmar is the only other one I know of in New Jersey.
I believe there is another drawbridge with a E - bell in Texas.
@@phantomrailproductions All of the drawbridges along the Welland Canal in Canada have WCH e-bells.
Awesome!
Very Interesting To Have a GS Type 2 E Bell At Drawbridge
There's another drawbridge up in Belmar that has these e-bells, too.
Was that a simplex 4040 going off?
Train on the water boat on the track
Like railroad crossing but drawbridge , so weird
shut up
General signals type 2 e bell?
Yes indeed.
piktureit Most Common On Railroad Crossings
An E-bell on a drawbridge? What the heck?
It's not completely unheard of. Up in Canada, every single drawbridge along the Welland Canal has a WCH E-bell.
@@GenesisSanctuary Really? Interesting. It is just that my past experiences with drawbridges have been with Mechanical bells, since I'm in the US.
@SuperWorldFan360 I did see what looked like WCH E-bells on drawbridges (somewhere distant from San Francisco?) over the Sacramento River on Google Maps.
@SuperWorldFan360 In fact:
goo.gl/maps/bAHcg8mNqhzZrNJq8
is that a safetran bell i hear
It would be a GS 2
Rail-Bridge Crossing XD
Railroad crossing bells are actually surprisingly common on a lot of drawbridges. A number of drawbridges in southern New Jersey have WCH mechanical bells, and one in Belmar has e-bells like these.
Where in Manasquan is this bridge, is this Route 71?
This is Brielle Road. It comes off of Route 71 as Fisk Avenue.
What country?
The USA. This is in Manasquan, New Jersey.
Is the GS 2 E-bell still here?
Yes it is. The other side of the bridge also has one.
Mechanical bell would be WAY better
Agreed, but what can you do?
Nah, this is one of the only bridges with an E-bell, leave it as is.
Jonah Chang in A442 not anymore. Those fake E bells suck
@Charles Kesil If only some of the rarer E-bells were used here. GS, WCH, and some Safetran E-bells are far too common. Something like an ASC or a Safetran 1 would be cool to see.
The Sacramento drawbridge right next to the capitol Mall railroad crossing uses M Bells
What Were The Previous Bells?
I don't really know.
Sailfanning
Google Maps show now WC HAYES Mechanical bells replaced these GS E bells
RAILROAD CROSSING BELL E BELL
Byron Chavarria GS 2
Dumb guys busting through red lights.
This bridge is out of date and sucks every way you look at it. At high tide every boat has to wait for it. Takes 15mins to open to close. Can’t drive a trailer across can’t drive a F350 across. Is broken at least once every 2 years. On top of it now it opens every hour instead of every 30 minutes. The only reason it hasn’t been replaced is because of the historical committee.
This bridge sucks if you live around here