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South High Street Bridge
Description
"This was one of a pair of almost identical, wrought iron, through plate girder overhead highway bridges known to have been built by the Keystone Bridge Co. on this, the Turners Falls Branch of the New Haven & Northampton RR, in 1880. (Keystone also built a 3-span Whipple truss bridge to carry the rail line over the Connecticut River into Montague in 1880, the southern span of the bridge still survives) The other 1880 plate girder bridge (M-28-12, Walnut St. [formerly N Main St.] over the railroad) has been removed." - S.J. Roper, MHD Historic Bridge Specialist, 6/1992
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned pony/through plate girder bridge over NH/B&M Turners Falls Branch on South High Street in Montague
- Location
- Montague, Franklin County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- History
- Built 1880
- Builder
- - Keystone Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Railroads
- - Boston & Maine Railroad (BM)
- New Haven & Northampton Railroad (NH&N)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 31.0 ft.
Total length: 36.0 ft.
Deck width: 17.2 ft.
- Recognition
-
Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- B&M Turners Falls Branch Bridge 1.59
NH Turners Falls Branch Bridge 7.84
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.58686, -72.57323 (decimal degrees)
42°35'13" N, 72°34'24" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/699126/4717792 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Greenfield
- Inventory numbers
- MA M-28-11 (Massachusetts bridge number)
BH 70448 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- January 3, 2016: Added by Ian Martin