Many moons ago, all the spans worked at Fort Point Channel Bridge. The waterway was a short navigable stream that led from Boston Harbor toward Berkeley Street, where it ends. Small freighters and tankers would pass delivering various commodities upstream. The switcher was waiting for a signal to go east toward the station. All three decks were removed 1999-2001, and now a temporary "shoo-fly" bridge's work is nearly done as a new four-track bridge with catenary has been installed where these spans used to cross the channel. Trucks did in the boats.

Photographed by Leo King, June 7, 1954.
Added to the photo archive by Leo King, June 5, 2004.
Railroad: NY, NH & H.

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