1800s: (Bridge Hunter)
1902: (Bridge Hunter) The 1902 date is from HAER-data, Bridge Hunter has 1905
1936: (Bridge Hunter; HAER)
2004: (Bridge Hunter) Bridge Hunter says 2006, but that is wrong.
2017: (Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; 3D Satellite)
This is another crossing that shows all three of the typical moving bridge designs: swing, bascule and lift.
1800s
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| Photo taken by Warren S, Parker Common Wealth via BridgeHunter-1905 (source), License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND) |
1902
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| Photo taken by Warren S, Parker Commonwealth via BridgeHunter-1905 (source), License: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND) |
A construction photo of the bascule bridge shows the swing span on the left.
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| Engineering News-Record, scrolled down |
1936
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| HAER MASS,11-WEYMO,5--2 2. FORE RIVER BRIDGE WITH DRAW SPAN IN USE. - Fore River Bridge, Route 3A, spanning Fore River, Weymouth, Norfolk County, MA |
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| Boston Public Library Flickr via BridgeHunter-1936, License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) Fore River Bridge, North Weymouth, Mass. |
2004
The bridge was removed in 2018 after the 2017 bridge opened. Obviously, this bridge was built to carry the traffic of MA-3A while the 1936 bridge is replaced.
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| Comment by Connie Henze on BridgeHunter-1936 |
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| weirdpix via BridgeHunter-2004, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) |
Google Earth caught the temporary bridge before the 1936 bascule bridge was removed. Unfortunately, the image is of poor quality. I don't know why Bridge Hunter gives a date of 2006 because an Apr 2005 image shows most of the 1936 bridge is gone. Also a comment on Bridge Hunter indicated it was built 2002-04.
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| Google Earth, Dec 2004 |
2017
The replacement bridge is a four-lane lift bridge.
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| Photo by John Childs via BridgeHunter-2017, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) |
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| RoadTraffic-Technology |
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| Street View |
John Childs' comments on BridgeHunter-2017 explains that the installation of the lift span was delayed because they first had to fix problems with lift mechanism components.
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| Bridges Now and Then posted Thanks to Mike Cavanaugh for a neat pic of the lift span section of Massachusetts' Fore River Bridge jacked up and ready to install. |
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