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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

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BH Photo #284860

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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 (1,071)
Beam (15,913)
Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad (2)
Built 1903 (597)
Built during 1900s (7,332)
G. M. Thompson (1)
Girder (10,357)
Lost (25,208)
Lost 1940 (67)
Lost during 1940s (413)
 Massachusetts (1,129)
Melvin . O. Adams (1)
Movable (3,001)
Plate girder (8,032)
Railroad (15,650)
Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. (123)
Suffolk County, Massachusetts (124)
Through girder (3,869)
Timber stringer (4,071)
Winthrop, Massachusetts (1)

Update Log 

  • June 4, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler

Sources 

  • Douglas Butler
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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