Seabrook Railroad Bridge

Seabrook Railroad Bridge

The Seabrook Railroad Bridge is named after location near the point at which the Inner Harbor-Navigational Canal connects to Lake Pontchartrain. It is often confused with the adjacent vehicular bridge to the north, the Senator Ted Hickey Bridge. Therefore, it is commonly called the Seabrook Railroad Bridge as it carries only trains across the canal.

It is one of the first four bridges built by the Port of New Orleans in the 1920's in order to provide railroad access across the Inner Harbor-Navigational Canal, locally referred to as the Industrial Canal. Besides Seabrook Railroad Bridge, two of the sister bridges at St. Claude Avenue and Almonaster Avenue Bridge, remain in service today.

The bridge has a horizontal clearance of 79 feet with unlimited vertical clearance when fully retracted.

Since rail traffic is limited, the bridge is normally in a raised position to facilitate waterway traffic.

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