Green Mountain/Rutland Bridge vs. Hurricane Irene in Chester, VT

(Satellite, my guess based on "in Chester, VT.)

I've seen this photo on the internet many times, but this is the first time I have seen some location information. Hurricane Irene was in late August 2011.

I Love Trains posted
Photo courtesy of Bridge in Chester, Vermont, after hurricane Irene

We have a choice of the bridge over Williams Middle Branch or the one further south over Williams River.

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The southern bridge had two spans with skewed trusses. One of which has been replaced by a steel girder bridge.

Satellite

So I'm going for the bridge over the Williams Middle Branch. Note that the truss span has been replaced by a girder span.

Satellite

There is a BridgeHunter post for the southern bridge: "GMRC - Williams River Bridge No. 114."

It specifies the history as: "Built 1899; Undermined by flooding from Hurricane Irene, Repaired."

Comment by Luke Harden in Archived Bridge Hunter for #114
"This is a screencap from a post Hurricane Irene PDF the Vermont Rail System put out:"

2011 is recent enough that it is worth checking out Google Earth. It indeed had two trusses.

Google Earth, Sep 2009

It kinda looks like they had a girder span just a few months after the huricane.

Google Earth, Dec 2011

They definitely had one by 2014.

Google Earth, Sep 2014

The northern bridge has the same progression: fuzzy truss, fuzzy girder and distinct girder.