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CSX - West Branch Westfield River Bridge (MP 128.88)
Description
Concrete arch bridge built as part of the 1911-13 line relocation in this area, bypassing the original 1840 stone structure that still stands to its east. Still in service as part of the CSX Boston Line.
Facts
- Overview
- Closed-spandrel arch bridge over West Branch, Westfield River on CSX Berkshire Subdivision
- Location
- Middlefield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and Berkshire County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1913 to bypass adjacent 1840 structure
- Railroads
- - Boston & Albany Railroad (BA)
- CSX Railroad (CSX)
- Conrail (CR)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Design
- Skewed concrete arch
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 50.0 ft.
- Recognition
-
Listed as a contributing resource to the Middlefield-Becket Stone Arch Railroad Bridge District
- Also called
- B&A - Bridge 128.88
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.30981, -73.00319 (decimal degrees)
42°18'35" N, 73°00'11" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/664570/4686105 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Becket
- Inventory number
- BH 65910 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 4, 2021: New photos from Chester Gehman
- March 14, 2015: New photo from Marc N Belanger
- February 8, 2015: Added by Ian Martin
Sources
- Ian Martin
- HAER MA-154 - Whistler Bridge No. 3, Becket, Berkshire County, MA
- Marc N Belanger - marcnbelanger [at] gmail [dot] com
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com