Contoocook Railroad Covered Bridge, Merrimack County, New Hampshire
Photograph: Brian Gregory
Built in 1889 on the granite abutments of an older span, the Contoocook Railroad Bridge is a Town lattice truss covered bridge spanning the Contoocook River in Hopkinton, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, on the former Contoocook Valley (Concord & Claremont, later Boston & Maine) Railroad line. It is identified as the world's oldest surviving covered railroad bridge. Now closed to railroad traffic, it was restored in 1995.
- County
- Merrimack
- State
- New Hampshire
- Crosses
- Contoocook River
- Built
- 1889
- Truss
- Double Web Town
- Length
- 157'
- Spans
- 2
- World Guide Number
- 29-07-07
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