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Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA. Surveyed as HAER MASS,8-NORTH,6-, with 1 photograph and a 189-word written history.

From the record

“Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA”

Survey record header. Machine-read text.

surveyed by the federal HAER program as HAER MASS,8-NORTH,6- · the record runs 189 words · one of 37 surveyed structures published for this county.

Sources: the survey record at the Library of Congress

Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA, photograph filed with the federal survey

1 photograph from the federal survey record, Library of Congress.

Present Owner

104 words

Source document Quoted word for word from HAER MASS,8-NORTH,6-. Not written, edited or summarised by this site.

Boston and Maine Railroad Significance Transmitted by This structure is an early example of an all-riveted metal lattice truss built for railroad use. The form of the riveted lattice truss reduced deflection under heavy moving loads and, apparently, provided smoother passage for trains. At the same time, it required more complicated mathematical analysis of stress than simple Pratt trusses. Jean P. Yearby, HAER, ADDENDUM TO HAER No. MA-55 BOSTON AND MAINE RAILROAD, NORTHAMPTON LATTICE TRUSS BRIDGE Ufyzk Northampton Hampshire County ^ . .. /,}Qp''i- Massachusetts XEROGRAPHIC COPIES OF COLOR TRANSPARENCIES HISTORIC AMERICAN ENGINEERING RECORD National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior Washington, D.C

In context

Northampton, Massachusetts The place record: every map, photograph and survey of this town.
Hampshire County, Massachusetts 352 topographic sheets across the county.
Library of Congress record The original filed report, and the sheets the survey produced. Those published here appear above.

Also surveyed in Northampton

13 records

The federal surveyors worked through Northampton building by building. These are the other structures they measured and filed a report on, longest report first.

SheetStructure SurveyReport
Northampton Veterans Administration Hospital Historic DistrictHABS MA-13532,821 words
Bay State Bridge, photograph filed with the federal surveyBay State BridgeHAER MASS,8-NORTH,7-1,974 words
Lieutenant William Parsons HouseHABS MASS,8-NORTH,2-1,049 words
Isaac Damons House, photograph filed with the federal surveyIsaac Damons HouseHABS MASS,8-NORTH,4-854 words
Hunt-Brewster House, photograph filed with the federal surveyHunt-Brewster HouseHABS MASS,8-NORTH,5-691 words
Northampton Veterans Administration Hospital Historic DistrictHABS MA-1353-B49 words
Northampton Veterans Administration Hospital Historic DistrictHABS MA-1353-D49 words
Northampton Veterans Administration Hospital Historic DistrictHABS MA-1353-E49 words
Northampton Veterans Administration Hospital Historic DistrictHABS MA-1353-C47 words
Northampton Veterans Administration Hospital Historic DistrictHABS MA-1353-F47 words
Northampton Veterans Administration Hospital Historic DistrictHABS MA-1353-G47 words
Northampton Veterans Administration Hospital Historic DistrictHABS MA-1353-A46 words
Allen House, photograph filed with the federal surveyAllen HouseHABS MASS,8-NORTH,3-43 words

Provenance

  • Written history. Quoted verbatim from HAER MASS,8-NORTH,6-. United States federal work, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Text capture. Machine-read from the scanned typescript filed with the survey, so spelling and spacing follow the original page.
  • How this page is made. Documentary passages are quoted from linked records; page labels and counts are clearly marked as presentation or calculations.