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BRB&L - Crystal Cove Bridge

Suffolk County, Massachusetts

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BRB&L - Crystal Cove Bridge

Near Boston

Photo taken by Douglas Butler

License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

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BH Photo #284860

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Facts 

Overview
Lost Pony plate girder bascule bridge over Crystal Cove on Boston Revere Beach & Lynn RR
Location
Winthrop, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Status
Removed
History
Built 1903. Removed 1940
Builders
- G.M. Thompson ( Chief Engineer)
- Melvin O. Adams (President)
- Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
Railroad
- Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad (BRB&L)
Design
Pony plate girder bascule
Also called
BRB&L - Loop Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+42.37102, -70.97418   (decimal degrees)
42°22'16" N, 70°58'27" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
19/337453/4692859 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Hull
Inventory number
BH 61231 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Bascule (1,080)
Beam (16,246)
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad (3)
Built 1903 (604)
Built during 1900s (7,437)
G.M. Thompson (1)
Girder (10,728)
Lost (26,406)
Lost 1940 (72)
Lost during 1940s (433)
 Massachusetts (1,158)
Melvin O. Adams (1)
Movable (3,063)
Plate girder (8,349)
Railroad (16,101)
Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. (123)
Suffolk County, Massachusetts (126)
Through girder (4,017)
Timber stringer (4,163)
Winthrop, Massachusetts (1)

Update Log 

  • June 4, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler

Sources 

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BRB&L - Crystal Cove Bridge
Posted September 22, 2020, by William Cashman (wecashman [at] msn [dot] com)

Please can you help me. I am trying to find blueprints of this bridge. Does Scherzer have an online archive that I may search? ny help would be most desirable.

Thak you for your kind consideration.

William Cashman