Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge
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The Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge is a historic vertical-lift railway bridge in Massachusetts that carries trains across the Cape Cod Canal and is notable for its impressive movable-span engineering.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
movable bridge
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railway bridge → steel bridge → vertical-lift bridge → |
| architect | Waddell & Hardesty → |
| builtBy |
Public Works Administration (PWA)
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surface form: "Public Works Administration"
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| carries |
freight trains
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passenger excursion trains → rail traffic → |
| category |
Bridges completed in 1935
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Railway bridges in Massachusetts → Vertical lift bridges in the United States → |
| clearanceBelowWhenRaised | 135 feet → |
| connects |
Cape Cod
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mainland Massachusetts → |
| constructionStart | 1933 → |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form: "United States"
|
| crosses | Cape Cod Canal → |
| designer | J. A. L. Waddell → |
| function | to allow both rail traffic and marine navigation via movable span → |
| fundedBy |
United States government
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surface form: "United States federal government"
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| hasLiftMechanism | counterweight system → |
| hasTowers | 2 → |
| historicalSignificance | one of the longest vertical-lift spans in the world at time of completion → |
| length | 1347 feet → |
| locatedIn |
Cape Cod Canal
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Massachusetts → |
| locatedNear |
Bourne, Massachusetts
→
Buzzards Bay →
surface form: "Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts"
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| mainSpanLength | 544 feet → |
| maintainedBy |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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surface form: "United States Army Corps of Engineers"
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| material | steel → |
| numberOfTracks | 1 → |
| opened | 1935 → |
| operatedBy |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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surface form: "United States Army Corps of Engineers"
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| owner |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
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surface form: "United States Army Corps of Engineers"
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| parallelTo |
Bourne Bridge
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Sagamore Bridge → |
| partOf | Cape Cod Canal transportation infrastructure → |
| region | New England → |
| replaced | earlier swing railroad bridge over Cape Cod Canal → |
| status | in service → |
| structureType | truss bridge → |
| usedBy |
Cape Cod Central Railroad excursion trains
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Mass Coastal Railroad → |
| verticalLiftSpanLength | 544 feet → |
| waterway | Cape Cod Canal → |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Cape Cod Canal bridges"