The Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : The 11 km long (7 mi) Cape Cod Canal separates Cape Cod from "mainland" Massachusetts. By allowing ships to pass between Cape Cod Bay and Buzzard's Bay, the canal greatly reduced the shipping distance between (for example) the ports of Boston and New York City. The bridge was completed in 1916. Top contributor and pilot PO3SMITH used a drone to give us a bird's eye view of the Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, one of three which cross it, built as a Public Works Administration project during the Depression.

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The Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge (also known as the Buzzards Bay Railroad Bridge), a vertical lift bridge in Bourne, Massachusetts near Buzzards Bay, carries railroad traffic across the Cape Cod Canal, connecting Cape Cod with the mainland.
The bridge was constructed beginning in 1933 by the Public Works Administration from a design by firms Parsons, Klapp, Brinckerhoff, and Douglas as well as Mead and White (both of New York), for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which operates both the bridge and the canal. The bridge has a 544-foot (166 m) main span, with a 135-foot (41 m) clearance when raised, uses 1,100-short-ton (1,000 t) counterweights on each end, and opened on December 29, 1935. The bridge replaced a bascule bridge that had been built in 1910. At the time of its completion, it was the longest vertical lift span in the world. It is now the second longest lift bridge in the United States.