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Greenfield-Montague Trolley Bridge
Description
First bridge in Greenfield lost to the 1936 floods. Its destruction was captured on film and appears in a WGBY documentary (linked below). Shortly after this bridge failed, the Montague City Covered Bridge was washed away, subsequently destroying two other bridges as it floated downriver.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Double-intersection Warren through truss bridge over Connecticut River on Greenfield-Turners Falls Trolley Line
- Location
- Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Destroyed by flooding
- History
- Lost to flooding in 1936
- Railroads
- - Greenfield-Montague Transportation Authority
- Interurban
- Design
- Double-intersection Warren through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.58052, -72.57960 (decimal degrees)
42°34'50" N, 72°34'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/698624/4717073 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Greenfield
- Inventory number
- BH 66420 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 5, 2015: Added by Ian Martin
Here is a picture of the bridge