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Linden Street Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
The Linden Street Bridge in 2011
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Location	Linden Street, Waltham, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′49″N 71°13′13″W / 42.38028°N 71.22028°W / 42.38028; -71.22028
Built	1894
Architect	Pennsylvania Steel Company
Restored by	Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (Ongoing)
Website	https://www.mass.gov/info-details/mass-central-rail-trail-wayside
MPS	Waltham MRA
NRHP reference No.	89001515
Added to NRHP	September 28, 1989

The Linden Street Bridge is an abandoned Central Massachusetts Railroad bridge over Linden Street (Massachusetts Route 60) in Waltham, Massachusetts. A restoration of the bridge is under construction as a part of the Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside (MCRT—Wayside) project. It is a riveted lattice through truss bridge, built in 1894 by the Pennsylvania Steel Company, and is one of only three such bridges left in the state. The bridge is 98 feet 3 inches (29.95 m) long and 17 feet (5.2 m) wide, with an inside truss height of 21 feet 11.5 inches (6.693 m), and rests on granite abutments. The design of the bridge was based on that of the Northampton crossing of the Connecticut River by the same railroad.

History

This section of the Central Massachusetts Branch, and the bridge, have been out of service since the early 1990s when service to the last customer, a lumber dealer located on Emerson Road, ended. The bridge is owned by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and leased to the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) for the rail trail.

The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. In 2022 and 2023, Waltham received two reimbursement based, $500,000 MassTrails grants intended to fund restoration of the bridge for the MCRT—Wayside, matching $9,300,000 spent on a 2.75 mile trail section built in Waltham. However, Waltham did not proceed with the bridge restoration. In September 2024, DCR announced it would fund restoration of the bridge. Construction began in December 2024.

See also

• List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Massachusetts
• List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Waltham, Massachusetts

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. ^ Kish, Patrice (2024-12-04). "Notice to Proceed RE: MCRT Waltham Linden Street Bridge". Commonwealth of Massachusetts DCR. Retrieved 2025-01-22.
3. Karr, Ronald (2010). Lost Railroads of New England. Branch Line Press. ISBN 9780942147117.
4. Lewis, Amanda (2024-01-01). "MassTrails Grants". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2024-11-14.
5. "2022 MassTrails Awards (81 Projects)". MassTrails. 2022-06-30.
6. "2023 MassTrails Grant Awards (68 Projects)". MassTrails. 2023-06-14. Retrieved 2023-09-24.
7. Sandoli, Annie (2022-03-03). "Waltham Mayor Requesting $9.3M For Wayside Rail Trail". Waltham, MA Patch. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
8. Autler, Gerald. "Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside". Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Retrieved 2024-09-09.

External links

[REDACTED] Media related to Linden Street Bridge at Wikimedia Commons

• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MA-46, "Central Massachusetts Railroad, Linden Street Bridge, Spanning Linden Street, Waltham, Middlesex County, MA", 2 photos, 2 color transparencies, 2 data pages, 2 photo caption pages

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