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MCER - East Street Overpass
Description
1901 grade separation on a section of shared right-of-way between the former B&A Ware River Branch, which occupied the two eastern spans, and the B&M Central Massachusetts Branch (later the Wheelwright Branch), which occupied the two western spans. The former B&M spans were built by Boston Bridge Works. Although built of the same design in the same year; the bridges differ subtly from one another. All tracks are currently operated by the Massachusetts Central Railroad, which operates the Ware River Branch from Palmer to Barre.
Facts
- Overview
- Pony/through plate girder bridge over East Street on Massachusetts Central Railroad
- Location
- Ware, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- B&M spans build 1901 by Boston Bridge Works; former B&A spans built 1901 by unknown builder
- Builder
- - Boston Bridge Works of Boston, Massachusetts (former B&M spans)
- Railroads
- - Boston & Albany Railroad (BA)
- Boston & Maine Railroad (BM)
- Central Massachusetts Railroad
- Massachusetts Central Railroad (MCER)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
- Design
- Pony plate girder
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 36.0 ft.
Total length: 57.0 ft.
Deck width: 52.4 ft.
- Also called
- B&A Ware River Branch Bridge No.11.97
B&M Fitchburg Division, Wheelwright Branch Bridge No. 74.75
Central Mass Bridge No. #A199
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.25862, -72.23274 (decimal degrees)
42°15'31" N, 72°13'58" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/728256/4682199 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Ware
- Inventory number
- BH 65851 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 4, 2015: New Street View added by Ian Martin