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Ashuelot Rail Trail - Ashuelot River Bridge #3
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Ashuelot Rail Trail - Ashuelot River Bridge #3
Photo taken by Michael Quiet in May 2017
BH Photo #391804
Description
This is one of a set of identical through trusses fabricated by the Boston Bridge Works sometime in the 1880's for the Ashuelot Railroad. All four bridges have an identical span length of 120 feet, with abutments adjusted at each crossing to accommodate the fixed span length. Undoubtedly this represented a cost saving measure, as only one bridge had to be engineered and for the entire railroad with the exception of a pony truss). For a railroad bridge the design is quite light, with the truss web consisting of just angled sections.The railroad was abandoned when the B&M was folded into Guilford Transportation in 1983, and was converted to a rail trail in 2009
Facts
- Overview
- Double-intersection Warren through truss bridge over Ashuelot River on Ashuelot Rail Trail
- Location
- Swanzey, Cheshire County, New Hampshire
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built c. 1880's by the Boston Bridge Works; Abandoned 1983; Converted to rail-trail 2009
- Builder
- - Boston Bridge Works of Boston, Massachusetts
- Railroads
- - Boston & Maine Railroad (B&M; BM)
- Rail-to-trail
- Design
- Double-intersection Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 120.0 ft.
- Also called
- BM - Ashuelot Branch Bridge No. 20.40
CRR - Ashuelot Branch Bridge No. 20.40 - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.88468, -72.29239 (decimal degrees)
42°53'05" N, 72°17'33" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/721111/4751565 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Keene
- Inventory number
- BH 65311 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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