Amtrak owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA)
Heritage status
National Register of Historic Places (1984)
National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark (1998)
Characteristics
Design
Blind arcade cavity wall
Material
Walls - Granite
Deck - Reinforced concrete
Total length
615'
Width
26'-28' (foundations), 22'-24' walls
Height
60' above river level, 70' maximum height
Longest span
2 at 28' (granite/concrete deck arches over the granite roadway portal)
No. of spans
71 total
Piers in water
7 (15 on land)
Clearance above
Approximately 21'
History
Designer
William Gibbs McNeill, Chief Engineer for the Boston & Providence Railroad (B&P)
Construction start
April 20, 1834
Opened
July 28, 1835
Statistics
Daily traffic
106 trains per day
Canton Viaduct
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location
Neponset and Walpole Sts., Canton, Massachusetts
Built
1834
Architect
McNeill, William Gibbs; Dodd & Baldwin
NRHP reference No.
84002870[1]
Added to NRHP
September 20, 1984
Location
Canton Viaduct is a blind arcade cavity wall in Canton, Massachusetts, built in 1834–35 for the Boston and Providence Railroad.[2]
At its completion, it was the longest (615 ft [187 m]) and tallest (70 ft [21 m]) railroad viaduct in the world; today, it is the last surviving viaduct of its kind. It has been in continuous service for 188 years; it now carries high-speed passenger and freight rail service. It supports a train deck about 65 feet (20 m) above the Canton River that passes through six semi-circular portals.
The Canton Viaduct was the final link built for the B&P's then 41-mile (66 km) mainline between Boston, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island.[3] Today, the viaduct serves Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, as well as Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Providence/Stoughton Line commuter trains. It is located 0.3 miles (0.5 km) south of Canton Junction, at milepost 213.74 (at the north end of the viaduct) reckoned from Pennsylvania Station in New York City, and at the MBTA's milepost 15.35, reckoned from South Station in Boston.
^"National Register Information System – (#84002870)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^
Hall, Candace (July 22, 2010). "Canton Viaduct: 175 and still chugging along". Canton Journal.
^Not the current distance, due to later route changes.
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