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Historic American Buildings Survey,
Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey
View photos from this survey. (Some may not be online).
Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanning Moose Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad, Gorham, Coos County, NH
- Title: Boston & Maine Railroad, Berlin Branch Bridge #148.81, Formerly spanning Moose Brook at former Boston & Maine Railroad, Gorham, Coos County, NH
- Other Title:
Moose Brook Bridge
National Covered Bridges Recording Project - Creator(s): Historic American Engineering Record, creator
- Related Names:
Concord & Montreal Railroad
Boston & Maine Railroad
Howe, William
Guilford Transportation
New Hampshire & Vermont Railroad
New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation (Department of Resources and Economic Development)
Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway Museum
Lansing Community College
Whistler, George Washington
Marston, Christopher H. , project manager
U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) , sponsor
Kidd, Anne E. , field team project manager
Mauro, Jeremy T. , field team
Rowley, Bradley M. , field team
Bartha, Csaba , field team
Case Western Reserve University , consultant
Andrews, Timothy , consultant
Gasparini, Dario A. , faculty sponsor
Wright, David , consultant
Mesler, Vern , consultant
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges , sponsor
Christianson, Justine , transmitter
Marston, Christopher H. , project manager
Mauro, Jeremy T. , field team supervisor
Gorokhov, Pavel , field team
Shakelton, Benjamin , field team
Salih, Hummam , field team
Bennett, Lola , historian
Nizamiev, Kamil , engineer
Harner, Neil , engineer
Berilla, Jim , engineer
Butler, Michael , engineer
Conger, David , engineer
Marvin, Vincent , engineer
Wan, Lin , engineer
Siu, Janette , engineer
Truax, Will , consultant
Caswell, William , sponsor
Buczkowski, David , sponsor
Duwadi, Sheila Rimal , sponsor
Lowe, Jet , photographer
McPartland, Mary , transmitter - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
- Medium:
Photo(s): 8
Measured Drawing(s): 14
Data Page(s): 78
Photo Caption Page(s): 1 - Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HAER NH-48
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- There is an agreement between HAER, National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges, and Case Western Reserve University to test and reconstruct the bridge. It was shipped to Cleveland for extensive testing. The reconstruction of the bridge was led by Timothy Andrews, Barns and Bridges of New England, assisted by Will Truax. Dario Gasparini led the engineering studies at Case Western Reserve University. Project assistance was provided by David Wright and Vern Mesler.
- Significance: In 1891-93, the Concord & Montreal Railroad built a 30-mile, single-track branch line from its main line at Whitefield, NH to Berlin, where lumber and paper industries were booming. The line passed through the towns of Jefferson, Randolph, and Gorham, along the northern edge of the Presidential Range. Shortly after the line's completion, the Boston & Maine Railroad leased the branch for 91 years. No information has been found concerning the first bridge at this location, but presumably it was a wood structure. The years of WWI brought the need for longer, heavier, and faster freight loads on this division and much of the line was upgraded to accommodate heavier rolling stock. This bridge is one of three known Howe pony truss bridges that were built on the line in 1918 and one of only two that survive. While it was accepted that wood bridges might have a shorter service life that steel bridges, they were economical to build, could be easily repaired, and gave evidence of distress long before failure. The Howe pony truss was the truss of choice for shorter spans on Boston & Maine lines. Patented in 1840 by Massachusetts millwright William Howe, the Howe truss addressed the inherent difficulty on constructing tension connections in wood by using adjustable wrought iron rods instead of wood posts for vertical tension members. The Howe truss was favored by railroads for its rigidity and simple framing connections, and was used extensively on railroad lines in the United States and Europe in the nineteenth century.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1252
- Survey number: HAER NH-48
- Building/structure dates: 1918 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 2004 Demolished
- Building/structure dates: 2010-2018 Subsequent Work
- Subjects:
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 44.099291, -69.622936
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
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- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HAER NH-48
- Medium:
Photo(s): 8
Measured Drawing(s): 14
Data Page(s): 78
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
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- Call Number: HAER NH-48
- Medium:
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Measured Drawing(s): 14
Data Page(s): 78
Photo Caption Page(s): 1
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