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Railroad Trestle Trail - Sheep Fold Bridge
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Sheep Fold Trolley Bridge
Photo by Brian Gudzevich
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
BH Photo #314794
Description
Former Boston Elevated Railway branch to Stoneham; service ended in 1946. Now part of the Middlesex Fells trail system.Facts
- Overview
- Concrete rigid frame bridge over Sheep Fold Access Road on Railroad Trestle Trail
- Location
- Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Abandoned 1946
- Railroads
- - Boston Elevated Railway (BERy)
- Interurban
- Design
- Closed-spandrel arch
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.45157, -71.10524 (decimal degrees)
42°27'06" N, 71°06'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 19/326883/4702062 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Boston North
- Inventory number
- BH 63295 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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Yes seems probable it could be an arch. Multi span rigid frames dating to before 1950 are not common and I do not think the railroads built them with any frequency. Also how old is this bridge? It may predate the invention of the concrete rigid frame bridge.