The Boston and Providence Railroad Bridge in East Providence is a railroad bridge on the East Junction Branch spanning Ten Mile River. A portion of the bridge also spans Roger Williams Avenue. The bridge was built in 1884 by the Boston and Providence Railroad, replacing an earlier structure on the line. The bridge abutments are faced in coursed ashlar stone, with brick-faced segmental-arch tunnels piercing them. The main span of the bridge consists of two Warren trusses resting on the abutments and a central pier in the Ten Mile River.[2] The bridge formerly carried two tracks, but has been reduced to one.[3]
The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1] It continues in active service carrying Providence and Worcester Railroad freight trains between East Providence and Seekonk, Massachusetts.[4]
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^"Historic Resources of East Providence, Rhode Island (PDF page 47)" (PDF). Rhode Island Preservation. Retrieved 2014-09-06.
^Kulik, Gary; Bonham, Julia C. (1978). Rhode Island: An Inventory of Historic Engineering and Industrial Sites. U.S. Department of the Interior, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Historic American Engineering Record. p. 84.
^Karr, Ronald Dale (2017). The Rail Lines of Southern New England (2nd ed.). Pepperell, Massachusetts: Branch Line Press. pp. 182–183. ISBN 978-0-942147-12-4. OCLC 1038017689. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
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