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PW - Southbridge Street Overpass

Worcester County, Massachusetts

Photo 

PW - Southbridge Street Overpass

looking east

Photo taken by Bruce Nelson in 1973

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #470829

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Facts 

Overview
Double-intersection Warren through truss bridge over Southbridge Street on Providence & Worcester Railroad
Location
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1910 by Boston Bridge Works
Builder
- Boston Bridge Works of Boston, Massachusetts
Railroads
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Providence & Worcester Railroad (PW)
Design
Double-intersection Warren through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 161.0 ft.
Skew angle
21 degrees
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.25473, -71.80625   (decimal degrees)
42°15'17" N, 71°48'23" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
19/268512/4681872 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Worcester North
Inventory number
BH 65304 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Boston Bridge Works (104)
Built 1910 (1,217)
Built during 1910s (10,027)
Double-barreled (105)
Double-intersection Warren through truss (184)
Double-intersection Warren truss (496)
Have street view (29,309)
Massachusetts (1,207)
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (529)
Open (41,013)
 Owned by railroad (13,597)
Providence & Worcester Railroad (61)
Railroad (16,555)
Riveted (2,578)
Skewed (5,024)
Span length 125-175 feet (4,464)
Through truss (17,339)
Truss (36,113)
Worcester County, Massachusetts (169)
Worcester, Massachusetts (25)

Update Log 

  • April 23, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • January 5, 2015: New Street View added by Ian Martin

Sources 

  • Ian Martin
  • Flickr - Matt Howard photo from 2019
  • Geoff Hubbs

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