The movable span is 544 feet long on the Cape Cod Canal vertica lift bridge, and it rises 135 feet. It weighs 2,200 tons, says the Army Corps of Engineers, which owns the bridge, and it takes four motors to lift it. There is a 10-foot tide in the canal and 32-foot draft vessels can ply its waters. The bridge bottom is a mere seven feet above mean high tide.

Photographed by Leo King, June 19, 1996.
Added to the photo archive by Leo King, June 13, 2004.
Railroad: Bay Colony.

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