Hackensack River Bridges Introduction
Introduction
Credit & Appreciation
Using Thumbnails
Image Notes
Bridge Links
INTRODUCTION
The following pages are a picture story of
water transits of the Hackensak River (New Jersey, USA) bridges. The story is told from the
north at Bogota, a tidal town at the head of navigation. The vessels shown bound downriver
are light 20M barrel oil
barges and their tugs. Sometimes the barges are moving bow first, sometimes stern.
Logically the story would be told going into the river, yet the winds which can blow strongly across the
swamp meadows and the peculiarites of tide make the the southbound journey with a light barge more "exciting."
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Credit & Appreciation
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CREDIT & APPRECIATION
Great appreciation must be expressed to the crews of the tugs
NORTH STAR and NEW HAVEN and of the barges HY-22 and HY-24, all of whom put up with a
camera toting visitor with an extraordinary display of welcome, kindness, patience,
helpfulness, and support. If these pages work, they get the credit.
Apprecation must also be expressed to the management of Spentonbush/Red Star Companies, a
division of the Amerada Hess Corporation. They encouraged this project and had earlier
kindly supported the author's effort to learn html.
Beyond their gracious interest, the river pages are without endorsement, and
all mistakes and limitations remain the author's.
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USING THUMBNAILS
Click on thumbnail image to see the full image. Click on browser back button to return to source page.
For reaons that are not clear, the summoning of the full image by the thumbnail does not always work. If you come up with a "can't go there" page, try refreshing your browser while at the non-working page.
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NOTES ON IMAGES
For editorial purposes some full images were adjusted after their thumbnail was made.
The images collected on each page are from more than one run of the river. Southbound / down river movement is shown unless otherwise indicated. Tugs and barges may be different in the same series of bridge images.
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Bridge links
Hackensack Home
Maps
Bogota
Life Along the Upper River
Secaucus
"HX" / Jackknife *
Erie Lift *
Erie Swing *
Portal *
Lower Hack
Freight *
Starting Over
Other Bridges
Life Along the Lower River
* Bridges that must open for transit in either direction.
There are no bridges that must open on one leg of the trip only.
