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Boylston Street - Boston & Albany Railroad Bridge
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Boylston St. Bridge, 1939
Item 45-31, Boylston St. Bridge, 3/21/39, Bridge and Ferry Photographs circa 1926-1947 (Collection # 5010.004), City of Boston Archives
Photo from City of Boston Archives
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
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BH Photo #313931
Description
Large Pratt pony truss with an arched upper chord that carried Boylston Street over the B&A mainline until the construction of the Massachusetts Turnpike in 1964-5.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt pony truss bridge over Boston & Albany Railroad on Boylston Street
- Location
- Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Redecked with asphalt 1939; replaced ca. 1965
- Railroad
- - Boston & Albany Railroad (BA)
- Design
- Pratt pony truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.34763, -71.08651 (decimal degrees)
42°20'51" N, 71°05'11" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 19/328140/4690482 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Boston South
- Inventory number
- BH 65546 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 23, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- September 26, 2015: Photo imported by Ian Martin
- January 17, 2015: Added by Ian Martin