AMTRAK Right-of-way at Saugatuck River, Westport, Connecticut. County/parish: Fairfield.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 12, 1987. NRIS 87000846.
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Saugatuck River Railroad Bridge, also known as Saugatuck River Bridge, is a railroad bridge carrying trackage of Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line over the Saugatuck River in Westport, Connecticut. It is one of eight moveable bridges on the Amtrak Northeast Corridor route through Connecticut. It was built in 1905 for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The bridge is a single leaf Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132353060