Tuesday, July 22, 2025

1957+2012 RI-24 and 1899-2007 NYNH&H Bridges over Sakonnet River at Tiverton, RI

1957: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite, they left the piers)
2012: (Satellite)
HYNH&H: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Bridges Now and Then posted
Thursday April 12, 2018, Tiverton, RI. Sections of the old Sakonnet River Bridge being dismantled. (The Providence Journal)

The piers are from the 1957 truss bridge. It looks like the 2012 bridge is a box-girder bridge.
Street View, Jul 2021

The approaches use concrete girders.
Street View, Jul 2023

BridgeHunter_NYNH&H
"Built 1899; Closed 1980 after being damaged by an overweight train; Hit by boat 1988; Demolished 2006-7"

Photo by Marc N. Belanger via BridgeHunter_NYNH&H

RIDOT via ArchivedBridgeHunter_1957
2,989' (911m) long with a main span of 375' (114m)

2005 photo by Marc N. Belanger via BridgeHunter_1957, at webpage resolution
"Built 1957; rehabilitated 1990; Replaced 2012; Demolished 2018"
BridgeHunter calls it a through truss. 

RIDOT via BridgeHunter_1957

BridgeHunter_1957, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA): Providence Public Library

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