AMTRAK Right-of-Way at Housatonic River, Milford-Stratford, Connecticut. County/parish: Fairfield.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 12, 1987. NRIS 87000842.
Part of Movable Railroad Bridges on the NE Corridor in Connecticut TR (NRIS 64000097).
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Housatonic River Railroad Bridge is a historic bridge carrying Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line trackage across the lower Housatonic River in the U.S. state of Connecticut. The bridge is also used by Amtrak for its Northeast Corridor services. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, which also refers to the bridge as the Devon Bridge. It is also referred to as the Devon Railroad Bridge by the state Department of Environmental Protection.
It is a "Scherzer Rolling Lift Bascule"-type bascule bridge. It has a steel superstructure and block stone piers. The moveable span is a Warren through truss span.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132353025