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Coordinates:42°20′14″N72°37′07″W / 42.33722°N 72.61861°W /42.33722; -72.61861

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Bridge in Massachusetts to Hadley, Massachusetts

Norwottuck Rail Trail Bridge

Coordinates	42°20′14″N72°37′07″W / 42.33722°N 72.61861°W /42.33722; -72.61861
Carries	Norwottuck Rail Trail
Crosses	Connecticut River
Locale	Northampton, Massachusetts toHadley, Massachusetts
Maintained by	MassDOT
Characteristics
Design	steellattice truss bridge^[1]
Total length	approximately 1,492 feet (454.76 m)
Longest span	approximately 200 feet (61 m)
History
Opened	1887, 1992
Location
Interactive map of Norwottuck Rail Trail Bridge

TheNorwottuck Rail Trail Bridge (also known as theNorthampton Lattice Truss Bridge) is a former crossing of theCentral Massachusetts Railroad over theConnecticut River in westernMassachusetts. Connecting the towns ofNorthampton andHadley by theNorwottuck Branch of the Mass Central Rail Trail, it is an eight-span steellattice truss bridge used by bicycle and foot traffic. With two spans, it crosses but does not provide access to Elwell Island.

History

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Work on the bridge originally began with theMassachusetts Central Railroad in 1872, awarded to contractor John R. Smith of Springfield Massachusetts. Construction was long troubled, first as thePanic of 1873 halted construction of the bridge and the entire railroad from Northampton toWaltham, and in 1877 a heavy windstorm blew the unfinished framework of the bridge off the piers into the Connecticut River.^[2]^: 30, 53 The Massachusetts Central Railroad had a grand opening running trains betweenHudson andBoston in 1881, but train service only reached as far westJefferson before operations ended in 1883.^[3]^: 7–10 The ruined bridge stood until 1887, when it was finally completed under the successorCentral Massachusetts Railroad, which began service between Northampton and Boston the same year.^[2]^: 91 It was built by the R. F. Hawkins Ironworks Company.^[4]

TheLinden Street Bridge was built in 1894 by the same railroad, following the design of the Norwottuck Rail Trail Bridge.^[5]

The Norwottuck Rail Trail Bridge was redesigned byVanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. ofWatertown, rebuilt byMassHighway, and opened in 1992 to bicycle and foot traffic, as part of then namedNorwottuck Rail Trail, and now the Norwottuck Branch of theMass Central Rail Trail.

References

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^Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge atStructurae
^^a ^bGreene, J.R. (August 1, 1996).The Mass Central: Quabbin's Phantom Railroad (1st ed.). Athol, Massachusetts: Athol Press.ISBN 1-884132-05-7.
^The Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society, Inc. (2008).The Central Mass (Second ed.). Brimfield, MA: Marker Press. p. 1.ISBN 978-0-9662736-3-2.
^Toomey, Daniel P. (1892).Massachusetts of Today: A Memorial of the State Historical and Biographical Issued for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago. Columbia. p. 347.Internet Archive
^Scott, Peter (December 1, 1987)."Application of Linden Street Bridge to National Register of Historic Places"(PDF). p. 2. RetrievedSeptember 14, 2025.

Jackson, Donald C. (1988).Great American Bridges and Dams. Wiley. pp. 95–96.ISBN 0-471-14385-5.

External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related toNorwottuck Rail Trail Bridge.

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. MA-55, "Boston & Maine Railroad, Northampton Lattice Truss Bridge, Northampton, Hampshire County, MA", 16 photos, 2 color transparencies, 2 data pages, 2 photo caption pages
Image of the Connecticut River Truss Bridge, ca. 1906
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc.

Connecticut River watershed

Tributaries

Connecticut	Blackledge River Coginchaug River Connecticut River Duck River Eightmile River Falls River Farmington River Hockanum River Hubbard River Jeremy River Lieutenant River Mattabesset River Nepaug River Pameacha Creek Park River Pequabuck River Salmon River Scantic River
Massachusetts	Burnshirt River Chapel Brook Chicopee River Connecticut River Cranberry River Deerfield River East Brookfield River Farmington River Fall River Five Mile River Green River Hubbard River Manhan River Mill River (Northampton) Mill River (Springfield) Millers River Mirey Brook North Branch Millers River North Branch Westfield River North River Otter River Quaboag River Scantic River Seven Mile River Tarbell Brook Ware River Westfield River
New Hampshire	Ammonoosuc River Ashuelot River Blow-me-down Brook The Branch Cold River Connecticut River East Branch Mohawk River Gale River Great Brook Halls Stream Ham Branch Indian River Indian Stream Israel River Johns River Knox River Little River Little Sugar River Mascoma River Millers River Mink Brook Mirey Brook Mohawk River Nash Stream North Branch Gale River North Branch Millers River North Branch Sugar River North Branch Upper Ammonoosuc River Oliverian Brook Otter Brook Partridge Brook Perry Stream Phillips Brook Simms Stream South Branch Ashuelot River South Branch Gale River South Branch Israel River South Branch Sugar River Stocker Brook Sugar River Tarbell Brook Upper Ammonoosuc River West Branch Mohawk River West Branch Upper Ammonoosuc River Wild Ammonoosuc River Zealand River
Vermont	Black River Connecticut River Deerfield River Fall River Green River Halls Stream Leach Creek Moose River Nulhegan River Ompompanoosuc River Ottauquechee River Passumpsic River Rock River Saxtons River Utley Brook Waits River Wells River West River Whetstone Brook White River Williams River Winhall River

Lakes

Connecticut	Barkhamsted Reservoir Lake Beseck Lake Hayward Lake Pocotopaug
Massachusetts	Brooks Pond Browning Pond Lake Monomonac Quabbin Reservoir Lake Wyola
New Hampshire	Ashuelot Pond Back Lake Canaan Street Lake Cedar Pond Christine Lake Comerford Reservoir Connecticut Lakes Crystal Lake Dublin Pond Eastman Pond Echo Lake Lake Francis (Murphy Dam) Goose Pond Grafton Pond Granite Lake Lakes of the Clouds Little Sunapee Lake Mascoma Lake McIndoes Reservoir Lake Monomonac Moore Reservoir Pearly Lake Silver Lake Spofford Lake Lake Sunapee Surry Mountain Lake Lake Tarleton
Vermont	Ball Mountain Lake Comerford Reservoir Harriman Reservoir Harvey's Lake McIndoes Reservoir Moore Reservoir North Hartland Lake Lake Rescue Townshend Lake

Towns

Connecticut	Chester Cromwell Deep River East Haddam East Hampton East Hartford East Windsor Enfield Essex Glastonbury Haddam Hartford Higganum Lyme Middletown Moodus Old Lyme Old Saybrook Portland Rocky Hill South Windsor Suffield Thompsonville Wethersfield Windsor Windsor Locks
Massachusetts	Agawam Chicopee Deerfield Easthampton Gill Greenfield Hadley Hatfield Holyoke Longmeadow Millers Falls Montague Northampton Northfield South Hadley Springfield Sunderland Turners Falls West Springfield Whately
New Hampshire	Bath Charlestown Chesterfield Claremont Clarksville Colebrook Columbia Cornish Dalton Groveton Hanover Haverhill Hinsdale Lancaster Lebanon Littleton Lyme Monroe Northumberland Orford Piermont Pittsburg Plainfield Stewartstown Stratford Walpole West Lebanon Westmoreland Woodsville
Quebec	East Hereford
Vermont	Ascutney Barnet Beecher Falls Bellows Falls Bloomfield Bradford Brattleboro Brunswick Canaan Concord Dummerston Fairlee Gilman Guildhall Hartford Hartland Lemington Lunenburg Maidstone Newbury Norwich Putney Rockingham Ryegate Springfield Thetford Vernon Waterford Weathersfield Wells River Westminster White River Junction Wilder Windsor