Boston & Maine Railroad over Linden St., Waltham, Massachusetts. County/parish: Middlesex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 28, 1989. NRIS 89001515.
Part of Waltham MRA (NRIS 64000301).
1 contributing structure.
The Linden Street Bridge is a Mass Central Rail Trail—Wayside (MCRT—Wayside) bridge over Linden Street (Massachusetts Route 60) in Waltham, Massachusetts. It was built in 1894 for the former Central Massachusetts Railroad by the Pennsylvania Steel Company. It was restored by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) for bicycle and pedestrian use in 2025. It is a riveted lattice through truss bridge 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 the Norwottuck Rail Trail Bridge over the Connecticut River by the same railroad.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63791931