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RUT - Lake Champlain Swing Bridge #2
Photos
RUT - Champlain Lake Bridge
Bow and Arrow Railroad Bridge
Photo taken by Douglas Butler in March 2013
BH Photo #283967
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Lattice through truss bridge over Lake Champlain (The Gut) on Rutland Railroad
- Location
- South Hero, Grand Isle County, Vermont
- Status
- Removed
- History
- Built 1899 by Edgemoor Bridge Works; Demolished 1965
- Builders
- - Charles F. Stowell (Engineer, Rutland Railroad)
- Edge Moor Bridge Works of Wilmington, Delaware (fabrication)
- Railroad
- - Rutland Railroad (RUT)
- Design
- Quadrangular lattice through swing truss
- Also called
- Rutland Railroad Bridge No. 275
RUT - Bow Arrow Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +44.75092, -73.31566 (decimal degrees)
44°45'03" N, 73°18'56" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/633325/4956661 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- North Hero
- Inventory number
- BH 61019 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 24, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- January 1, 2017: Updated by Michael Quiet: Noted Builder
- April 13, 2015: New photo from Luke
- May 22, 2014: Updated by Clark Vance: Lattice per photo
- May 21, 2014: Updated by Michael Quiet: Fixed location to be Bow and Arrow Point
- May 20, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler
Sources
- Douglas Butler
- Michael Quiet - mquiet [at] gmail [dot] com
- Rutland Railroad Bridge - Swing rail bridge replaced
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com
- Rutland Railroad Archive - Images
- Luke
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In the summer of 1968, my mother and I joined my father in North Hero where he was operating a crane to assist in the removal of the footings for this bridge. As I was eleven at the time, my memories are sketchy, but I believe the bridge itself had been removed a few years prior to the final demolition.
We watched from a boat anchored about half a mile away when the footings were dynamited. First, we saw the stone flying in all directions, then felt the shock wave hit the boat. A moment later the sound waves hit. It made quite a bang.
Locals converged on the site in their boats to scoop up the fish that had been stunned by the explosion.