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LOCATION
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Railroad routs Lexington Milepost # 10.85 Val plan # 13.2/8
Location Grant Street Town/City Lexington
USGS quad LEXINGTON UTM Ref. 19.316960.4701660
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Structure type Thru plate girder
Overall length 45-5 Width 12-9
Tracks 1 Skew Materials Steel
HIISTORIICAIL, SUMMARY
Date 1905 Date(s) rebuilt
Common Name (If any)
Bridge typology code 1 ] 2 0 3 0 4 13
Spans 1 Span lengths 40-0 B.D./O.D. OD
Condition Out of service Height 14-5
Builder New England Structural Co., Everett, Ma.
Designer
CULTURAL RESOURCE EVALUATIONS
National Register status
Local landmark designation
HAER Doc. * Type and date of HAER documentation
MDPW # L-10-2 MHC finding Date of finding
National Register recommendation
Not eligible. This bridge is an example of a common type of twentieth century bridge construction and does not
possess enough historic or engineering significance to merit further research or documentation.
GRAPHICS
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Jane Carolan MBTA Contract No. X2PS26
Historic railroad name Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad
HISTORY & DESCRIPTION
Construction of the Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad, running between the connection with the Fitchburg
Railroad at West Cambridge and Lexington Center, was completed on September 1, 1846. The line was operated by
the Fitchburg Railroad. An extension of the line from Lexington to Concord was completed in 1873. Passenger
service on this line ended in 1977, and the track has been removed in many places. The right-of-way is currently
being rebuilt as the Minuteman Bike Trail.
Ashlar stone abutments, originally built to accommodate a three track, single span bridge, now carry a single track,
thru plate girder span. Bridge has riveted plate girders and floor beams and I-beam stringers, three beneath each
rail. Bridge also has lower lateral cross bracing.
This is one of the bridges erected in 1905 to eliminate grade crossings on the Lexington line.
Sources
Boston & Maine Railroad drawings. Transferred to aperture cards, MBTA Plan Room, 10 Park Plaza, Boston.
Boston & Maine Railroad, Valuation Survey Reports for Interstate Commerce Commission. Valuation Fieldnotes:
Account 6. Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society Archives, University of Lowell.
Sur �ayor Charles Scott
Survey date November 1987
Reviewer AGL
Review date 1 1/23/67
Survey photographs
34/22A--2881.33-34
GLOSSARY VaI Plan: Railroad property valuation plan. Fes?: Historic American Engineering Record
USGS q[ad. U.S. Geological Survey quadrangle map B.D.1O.D.: Ballasted dedc/open deck
UTM Ret: USGS map grid reterence in ttw Universal Transverse Mercator grid system.
rev. 10/15/87