🌉 Rutland Railroad Covered Bridge
Shoreham, VT · also known as East Shoreham Covered Railroad Bridge · built 1897
Photo: Jonathan Leo Connor via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Also known as the East Shoreham Covered Railroad Bridge, it was built in 1897 by the Rutland Railroad Company for its Addison Branch line, crossing the Lemon Fair River at Richville Pond. Because the branch carried light traffic, the railroad built in wood rather than paying for iron, leaving Vermont's only surviving wooden Howe truss railroad bridge. Trains used it until the line was abandoned in 1951; the state acquired the bridge in 1972 and renovated it in 1983. The tracks are gone, and the bridge now carries a footpath along the former rail bed.
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Bridge facts compiled from the National Register of Historic Places, the Vermont Covered Bridge Society and town histories. Map pin is approximate.