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Seffens Bridge
Description
"Riveted (and in some areas now bolted) single-intersection Warren pony truss w/ outrigger sway braces, no verticals. Tapered floor beams hung from chord panel points. Box upper chords. Dry-laid, semi-coursed granite rubble abutments." -S.J. Roper, 10/1987
Donated to UMass Amherst for reuse in 2003-4, replaced by a modern pony truss in 2006.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost pony truss bridge over South River on Reeds Bridge Road in Conway
- Location
- Conway, Franklin County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Donated to UMass Amherst and reused on a university road
- History
- Built 1894; reconstructed 1984; donated to UMass and replaced 2003-6
- Builder
- - R.F. Hawkins Iron Works of Springfield, Massachusetts
- Design
- Riveted and bolted Warren pony Truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 65.0 ft.
Total length: 67.9 ft.
Deck width: 12.1 ft.
- Also called
- Reeds Bridge Road Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.54194, -72.69374 (decimal degrees)
42°32'31" N, 72°41'37" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/689374/4712527 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Shelburne Falls
- Inventory numbers
- MA C20014 (Massachusetts bridge number)
BH 19297 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 22, 2015: Updated by Tony Dillon: Corrected information from through to a pony truss
- April 22, 2015: Updated by Ian Martin: Merged MACRIS Info.; bridge was donated to UMass
- August 30, 2011: Updated by Ben Tate: incorporated NBI info; bridge was replaced a long time ago