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The Linden Street Bridge is a historic bridge on the abandoned
Central Massachusetts Railroad The Central Massachusetts Railroad was a railroad in Massachusetts. The eastern terminus of the line was at North Cambridge Junction where it split off from the Middlesex Central Branch of the Boston and Lowell Railroad in North Cambridge and ...
over Linden Street (
Massachusetts Route 60 Route 60 is a east–west state highway running through the northern suburbs of Boston. Its western terminus is at U.S. Route 20 (US 20) in Waltham and its eastern terminus is at Route 1A and Route 16 in Revere. Route description Route 6 ...
) in
Waltham, Massachusetts Waltham ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, and was an early center for the labor movement as well as a major contributor to the American Industrial Revolution. The original home of the Boston Manufacturing Company, th ...
. It is a riveted lattice through truss bridge, built in 1894 by the
Pennsylvania Steel Company The Pennsylvania Steel Company was the name of two Pennsylvania steel companies. The original company was established in late 1865 by: J. Edgar Thomson, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Samuel Morse Felton Sr., recently retired president of ...
, and is one of only three such bridges left in the state. The bridge is long and wide, with an inside truss height of , and rests on granite abutments. The design of the bridge was based on that of the Northampton crossing of the
Connecticut River The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for through four states. It rises 300 yards (270 m) south of the U.S. border with Quebec, Canada, and discharges at Long Island ...
by the same railroad. This section of the Central Massachusetts Branch, and the bridge, have been out of service since the early 1990s when service to the last customer, a lumber dealer located on Emerson Road, ended. The bridge was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
in 1989. In 2022, the city was awarded a $500,000 state grant to restore the bridge as part of the
Mass Central Rail Trail The Mass Central Rail Trail is a partially-completed rail trail from Northampton, Massachusetts to Boston along the former right of way of the Massachusetts Central Railroad. When complete, it will run through Central Massachusetts and Greater Bo ...
.


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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Massachusetts __NOTOC__ This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Bridges References External links {{HAER list, structure=bridge *List *List Massachusetts Massachusetts ...
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List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts This is a list of bridges and tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. References {{National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Bridges Massachusetts Bridges Bridges A bridg ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Waltham, Massachusetts This is a list of properties and historic districts in Waltham, Massachusetts, that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longit ...


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* Railroad bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Bridges completed in 1894 Bridges in Middlesex County, Massachusetts Railroad bridges in Massachusetts Buildings and structures in Waltham, Massachusetts Historic American Engineering Record in Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Waltham, Massachusetts Steel bridges in the United States Lattice truss bridges in the United States {{Massachusetts-bridge-struct-stub