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Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Rollins Farm Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad at Ham Road, Rollinsford, Strafford County, NH

Rollins Farm Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad at Ham Road, Rol...

Significance: Rollins Farm Bridge is one of possibly seven standing boxed pony timber bridges in North America, and one of four in New Hampshire. It is the only example of the numerous overhead roadway bridges... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water Street (U.S. Route 3), Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water ...

Significance: The bridge is one of 35 historic through girder bridges extant in the state of New Hampshire. It ranked fifth under the NHDOT bridge rating system. The bridge is technologically significant becaus... More

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east of Biddleford Road, Arundel, York County, ME

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east o...

Significance: Meeting House Bridge has state-level significance as an increasingly rare example of timber-truss bridge technology. Howe-patent trusses such as this, combining wooden compression members with wr... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Clark Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad on Clark Street, Belmont, Middlesex County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Clark Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine ...

Significance: The Boston & Maine Railroad built wood and iron truss bridges into the twentieth century, long after most other railroads had switched to all-metal bridges. The Clark Street Bridge is representat... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Claremont, Sullivan County, NH

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad ...

Significance: One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was bridge ... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Rollins Farm Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad at Ham Road, Rollinsford, Strafford County, NH

Rollins Farm Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad at Ham Road, Rol...

Significance: Rollins Farm Bridge is one of possibly seven standing boxed pony timber bridges in North America, and one of four in New Hampshire. It is the only example of the numerous overhead roadway bridges... More

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water Street (U.S. Route 3), Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water ...

Significance: The bridge is one of 35 historic through girder bridges extant in the state of New Hampshire. It ranked fifth under the NHDOT bridge rating system. The bridge is technologically significant becaus... More

B.M. Ry. [Boston and Maine Railroad], Y.M.C.A., Concord, N.H.

B.M. Ry. [Boston and Maine Railroad], Y.M.C.A., Concord, N.H.

Public domain image of a train station in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Claremont, Sullivan County, NH

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad ...

Significance: One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was bridge ... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Essex Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad on Essex Street, Swampscott, Essex County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Essex Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine ...

Significance: The Boston & Maine Railroad built wood and iron truss bridges into the twentieth century, long after most other railroads had switched to all-metal bridges. The Essex Street Bridge is representat... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water Street (U.S. Route 3), Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water ...

Significance: The bridge is one of 35 historic through girder bridges extant in the state of New Hampshire. It ranked fifth under the NHDOT bridge rating system. The bridge is technologically significant becaus... More

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east of Biddleford Road, Arundel, York County, ME

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east o...

Significance: Meeting House Bridge has state-level significance as an increasingly rare example of timber-truss bridge technology. Howe-patent trusses such as this, combining wooden compression members with wr... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Claremont, Sullivan County, NH

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad ...

Significance: One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was bridge ... More

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Claremont, Sullivan County, NH

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad ...

Significance: One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was bridge ... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanning Moose Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad, Gorham, Coos County, NH

Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanni...

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Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanning Moose Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad, Gorham, Coos County, NH

Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanni...

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east of Biddleford Road, Arundel, York County, ME

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east o...

Significance: Meeting House Bridge has state-level significance as an increasingly rare example of timber-truss bridge technology. Howe-patent trusses such as this, combining wooden compression members with wr... More

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east of Biddleford Road, Arundel, York County, ME

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east o...

Significance: Meeting House Bridge has state-level significance as an increasingly rare example of timber-truss bridge technology. Howe-patent trusses such as this, combining wooden compression members with wr... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Clark Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad on Clark Street, Belmont, Middlesex County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Clark Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine ...

Significance: The Boston & Maine Railroad built wood and iron truss bridges into the twentieth century, long after most other railroads had switched to all-metal bridges. The Clark Street Bridge is representat... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Clark Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad on Clark Street, Belmont, Middlesex County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Clark Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine ...

Significance: The Boston & Maine Railroad built wood and iron truss bridges into the twentieth century, long after most other railroads had switched to all-metal bridges. The Clark Street Bridge is representat... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Clark Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad on Clark Street, Belmont, Middlesex County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Clark Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine ...

Significance: The Boston & Maine Railroad built wood and iron truss bridges into the twentieth century, long after most other railroads had switched to all-metal bridges. The Clark Street Bridge is representat... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Boston & Maine Railroad and connections.

Boston & Maine Railroad and connections.

Map of New England and part of Canada showing relief by hachures, major drainage, cities and towns, state boundaries, and the railroad network with main lines emphasized. Scale ca. 1:1,000,000. LC Railroad maps... More

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Claremont, Sullivan County, NH

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad ...

Significance: One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was bridge ... More

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Claremont, Sullivan County, NH

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad ...

Significance: One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was bridge ... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east of Biddleford Road, Arundel, York County, ME

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east o...

Significance: Meeting House Bridge has state-level significance as an increasingly rare example of timber-truss bridge technology. Howe-patent trusses such as this, combining wooden compression members with wr... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water Street (U.S. Route 3), Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water ...

Significance: The bridge is one of 35 historic through girder bridges extant in the state of New Hampshire. It ranked fifth under the NHDOT bridge rating system. The bridge is technologically significant becaus... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanning Moose Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad, Gorham, Coos County, NH

Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanni...

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east of Biddleford Road, Arundel, York County, ME

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east o...

Significance: Meeting House Bridge has state-level significance as an increasingly rare example of timber-truss bridge technology. Howe-patent trusses such as this, combining wooden compression members with wr... More

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east of Biddleford Road, Arundel, York County, ME

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east o...

Significance: Meeting House Bridge has state-level significance as an increasingly rare example of timber-truss bridge technology. Howe-patent trusses such as this, combining wooden compression members with wr... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

B.& M. Ry. Boston and Maine Railroad station, Malden, Massachusetts

B.& M. Ry. Boston and Maine Railroad station, Malden, Massachusetts

"10" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 019178. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Claremont, Sullivan County, NH

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad ...

Significance: One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was bridge ... More

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Claremont, Sullivan County, NH

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad ...

Significance: One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was bridge ... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Essex Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad on Essex Street, Swampscott, Essex County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Essex Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine ...

Significance: The Boston & Maine Railroad built wood and iron truss bridges into the twentieth century, long after most other railroads had switched to all-metal bridges. The Essex Street Bridge is representat... More

Rollins Farm Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad at Ham Road, Rollinsford, Strafford County, NH

Rollins Farm Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad at Ham Road, Rol...

Significance: Rollins Farm Bridge is one of possibly seven standing boxed pony timber bridges in North America, and one of four in New Hampshire. It is the only example of the numerous overhead roadway bridges... More

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water Street (U.S. Route 3), Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water ...

Significance: The bridge is one of 35 historic through girder bridges extant in the state of New Hampshire. It ranked fifth under the NHDOT bridge rating system. The bridge is technologically significant becaus... More

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water Street (U.S. Route 3), Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water ...

Significance: The bridge is one of 35 historic through girder bridges extant in the state of New Hampshire. It ranked fifth under the NHDOT bridge rating system. The bridge is technologically significant becaus... More

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east of Biddleford Road, Arundel, York County, ME

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east o...

Significance: Meeting House Bridge has state-level significance as an increasingly rare example of timber-truss bridge technology. Howe-patent trusses such as this, combining wooden compression members with wr... More

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east of Biddleford Road, Arundel, York County, ME

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east o...

Significance: Meeting House Bridge has state-level significance as an increasingly rare example of timber-truss bridge technology. Howe-patent trusses such as this, combining wooden compression members with wr... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Salvage. Stacking chips in the game of war. Even better, if possible, than the individual citizen, American industry has learned to waste nothing. With every ounce of steel and steel scrap vital to the war, this employee of the Boston & Maine Railroad has been assigned the job of sorting steel washers. Here, as in all industry today, anything reusable is put back into service; the remainder becomes scrap to feed the nation's insatiable steel mills

Salvage. Stacking chips in the game of war. Even better, if possible, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water Street (U.S. Route 3), Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water ...

Significance: The bridge is one of 35 historic through girder bridges extant in the state of New Hampshire. It ranked fifth under the NHDOT bridge rating system. The bridge is technologically significant becaus... More

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water Street (U.S. Route 3), Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water ...

Significance: The bridge is one of 35 historic through girder bridges extant in the state of New Hampshire. It ranked fifth under the NHDOT bridge rating system. The bridge is technologically significant becaus... More

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water Street (U.S. Route 3), Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water ...

Significance: The bridge is one of 35 historic through girder bridges extant in the state of New Hampshire. It ranked fifth under the NHDOT bridge rating system. The bridge is technologically significant becaus... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Charles River Bridges, Charles River, North Station vicinity, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Charles River Bridges, Charles River, North S...

Significance: Part of the extensive terminal improvement program by the Boston & Maine Railroad, and the last element to be completed, was the replacement and realignment of the railroad's crossings of the Char... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Charles River Bridges, Charles River, North Station vicinity, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Charles River Bridges, Charles River, North S...

Significance: Part of the extensive terminal improvement program by the Boston & Maine Railroad, and the last element to be completed, was the replacement and realignment of the railroad's crossings of the Char... More

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Claremont, Sullivan County, NH

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad ...

Significance: One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was bridge ... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland Division, Boston & Maine Railroad, Sterling, Worcester County, MA

Hastings Bridge, Campground Road spanning Worcester, Nashua & Portland...

Significance: Hastings Bridge represents a type of construction that was once common but rarely survives, the wooden truss. It is the oldest extant timber pony truss bridge identified in the Massachusetts stat... More

Rollins Farm Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad at Ham Road, Rollinsford, Strafford County, NH

Rollins Farm Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad at Ham Road, Rol...

Significance: Rollins Farm Bridge is one of possibly seven standing boxed pony timber bridges in North America, and one of four in New Hampshire. It is the only example of the numerous overhead roadway bridges... More

Rollins Farm Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad at Ham Road, Rollinsford, Strafford County, NH

Rollins Farm Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad at Ham Road, Rol...

Significance: Rollins Farm Bridge is one of possibly seven standing boxed pony timber bridges in North America, and one of four in New Hampshire. It is the only example of the numerous overhead roadway bridges... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanning Moose Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad, Gorham, Coos County, NH

Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanni...

Public domain photograph - historical image of New Hampshire, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, Unit... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanning Moose Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad, Gorham, Coos County, NH

Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanni...

Public domain photograph of building in Boston, Massachusetts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east of Biddleford Road, Arundel, York County, ME

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east o...

Significance: Meeting House Bridge has state-level significance as an increasingly rare example of timber-truss bridge technology. Howe-patent trusses such as this, combining wooden compression members with wr... More

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Claremont, Sullivan County, NH

Wright's Bridge, Spanning Sugar River, former Boston & Maine Railroad ...

Significance: One of only eight remaining covered railroad bridges in the country. Wright's Bridge is structurally the most interesting of the four existing bridges built while Jonathan Parker Snow was bridge ... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton...

Significance: This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently,... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Essex Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad on Essex Street, Swampscott, Essex County, MA

Boston & Maine Railroad, Essex Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine ...

Significance: The Boston & Maine Railroad built wood and iron truss bridges into the twentieth century, long after most other railroads had switched to all-metal bridges. The Essex Street Bridge is representat... More

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water Street (U.S. Route 3), Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water ...

Significance: The bridge is one of 35 historic through girder bridges extant in the state of New Hampshire. It ranked fifth under the NHDOT bridge rating system. The bridge is technologically significant becaus... More

Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanning Moose Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad, Gorham, Coos County, NH

Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanni...

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston & Maine Railroad (originally Concord & Claremont Railroad), Hopkinton, Merrimack County, NH

Contoocook Railroad Bridge, Spanning Contoocook River at former Boston...

See HABS No. NH-21, Contoocook Covered Bridge, for further information: 6 drawings, 1 b&w photo, 5 data pages. Town lattice truss, 2 spans Significance: The Contoocook Railroad Bridge is one of eight surviving... More

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water Street (U.S. Route 3), Concord, Merrimack County, NH

Water Street Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad tracks at Water ...

Significance: The bridge is one of 35 historic through girder bridges extant in the state of New Hampshire. It ranked fifth under the NHDOT bridge rating system. The bridge is technologically significant becaus... More

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east of Biddleford Road, Arundel, York County, ME

Meeting House Bridge, Spanning Boston & Maine Railroad 0.1 mile east o...

Significance: Meeting House Bridge has state-level significance as an increasingly rare example of timber-truss bridge technology. Howe-patent trusses such as this, combining wooden compression members with wr... More

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