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The Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, a vertical lift bridge in Bourne, Massachusetts
near Buzzards Bay, carries railroad traffic across the Cape Cod Canal,
connecting Cape Cod with the rest of Massachusetts, USA.
The bridge was constructed beginning in 1933 by the Public Works Administration
for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which operates both the
bridge and the canal. The bridge has a 544-foot (166m) main span, with
a 135-foot (41m) clearance when raised, and opened on December 29, 1935.
The bridge replaced an earlier, 1910 bridge. It is the second longest lift
bridge in the United States, the longest being the Arthur Kill Vertical
Lift Bridge between New Jersey and Staten Island, New York.
In 2002, the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge underwent a major rehabilitation
at a cost of $30 million and reopened in 2003. The Bay Colony rail line
on the Cape is used for a seasonal tourist train, the Cape Cod Railroad,
and to haul trash to a waste-to-energy plant in Rochester, Massachusetts.
- adapted from Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge(2008); Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia.
This page last updated January 2015
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