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A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates /�! META Historical Property Survey, Phase H
DMC Engineering
Jane Carolan MBTA Contract No. X2PS26
LOCATION
Railroad routs Lexington Milepost # 12.16 Val plan * 13.2110
Location East of Bedford St. at Public Works Building Town/City Lexington
USGS quad LEXINGTON UTM Rai. 19.315900.4703210
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Structure type I -Beam stringer Bridge typology code 10 2 [2 3 1 4E]
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Overall length 22-5 Width 12 ap Spans 1 Span lengths 17-5 B.D./O. D. OD
Tracks 1 Skew Materials Steel Condition Out of service Height 18-0
HISTORICAL SUMMARY
Date 1900 Date(s) rebuilt Builder union Bridge Co.
Common Name (If any) Designer
CULTURAL RESOURCE ]EVALUATIONS
National Register status
Local landmark designation
HAER Doc. # Type and date of HAER documentation
MDPW * 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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A.G. Lichtenstein & Associates MBTA Historical Property Survey, Phase U
DMC Engineering MBTA Contract No. X2PS26
Jane Carolan
Historic railroad nam* Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad
HISTORY b 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.
Coursed, quarry -faced ashlar granite abutments carry a single track, open deck, I-beam stringer bridge. Three
I-beam stringers, braced by steel diaphragms, are beneath each rail. Bridge has riveted gusset plates and upper
lateral bracing. Bridge abutments appear to have been built to accommodate two tracks. Space where second track
may have been is now occupied by a steel stringer pedestrian walkway. This bridge was built to permit the Lexington
and Boston (later Middlesex and Boston) Street Railway to cross the Lexington branch undergrade.
Sources
Boston & Maine Railroad, Valuation Survey Reports for Interstate Commerce Commission. Valuation Fieldnotes:
Account 6. Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society Archives, University of Lowell_
Interview with Mr. Norton D_ Clark, Boston, December 1987.
Sury I or
Survey dat4
Charles Scott
November 1987
Reviewer AGL
Review date 11/23/87
Survey photographs
34/20A
GLOSSARY Val Plan: Railroad property valuation plan. H4ER: Historic American Engineering Record
USGS quad: U.S. Geological Survey quadrangle map B.D./O.D.: Ballasted dock/open deck
UTM Ref.: USGS map grid reterence in the Universal Transverse Mercator grid system.
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