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Boston & Albany Railroad Bridge

Between Chelsea and Boston MA in closed position

Photo taken by Douglas Butler in March 2013

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

BH Photo #266374

This bridge is removed.

Overview: Bridge over Chelsea Creek on Boston & Albany Railroad ( 2 tracks)
Location: Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Status: Removed but not replaced
History: Built 1919; On February 28, 1955, the counterweight fell off the Chelsea Creek drawbridge, taking the bridge permanently out of service
Builder: - Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
Railroads: - Boston & Albany Railroad (BA)
- New York Central Railroad (NYC)
Design: Strauss Overhead Counterweight type Through Truss
Dimensions: Total length: 104.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude: +42.38548, -71.02390 (decimal degrees)
42°23'08" N, 71°01'26" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 19/333397/4694561 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Boston North
Inventory number: BH 57986 (Bridgehunter.com ID)