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WRRR - Three Crossings Bridge
Description
Bridge replaced a collapsed trestle in 1886. Two people were killed in the disaster.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Quadrangular lattice through truss bridge over West River on West River Railroad in Brattleboro.
- Location
- Brattleboro, Windham County, Vermont
- Status
- Removed but not replaced
- History
- Built 1886 by Vermont Construction Co.; Line abandoned 1936; Scrapped 1938
- Builder
- - Vermont Construction Co. of St. Albans, Vermont
- Railroads
- - Brattleboro & Whitehall Railroad
- West River Railroad
- Design
- Wrought iron Quadrangular lattice through truss with Double Intersection Warren pony truss approach span
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 240.0 ft.
Total length: 315.0 ft.
- Also called
- Brattleboro & Whitehall - Three Crossing Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.86664, -72.55614 (decimal degrees)
42°51'60" N, 72°33'22" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/699629/4748903 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Brattleboro
- Inventory number
- BH 75697 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 13, 2022: Updated by Chester Gehman: Added 1886 bridge collapse to description.
- February 13, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- February 17, 2017: Added by Michael Quiet
Sources
- Michael Quiet - mquiet [at] gmail [dot] com
- Geoff Hubbs
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com