The Cape Canal Railway Bridge

Now that I finally shared my Wednesday walk in Buzzards Bay Park, I can share the photos I took of a couple of bridges I saw while walking along by the canal

Starting with the Cape Canal Railway bridge

I was there from the blue hour through sunrise, but the sunrise was in the opposite direction from the bridge, I will have to find a spot when I can view this bridge with the sunrise in the background or go there for sunrise I guess

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A little about the bridge
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The Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge (also known as the Buzzards Bay 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 mainland.

The bridge was constructed beginning in 1933 by the Public Works Administration from a design by firms Parsons, Klapp, Brinckerhoff, and Douglas as well as Mead and White (both of New York), for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which operates both the bridge and the canal.

The bridge has a 544-foot (166 m) main span, with a 135-foot (41 m) clearance when raised, uses 1,100-short-ton (1,000 t) counterweights on each end, and opened on December 29, 1935. The bridge replaced a bascule bridge that had been built in 1910.

At the time of its completion, it was the longest vertical lift span in the world.[4] It is now 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.

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