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Lengths given are very rough estimates. The main bascule span is actually not the longest span on the bridge. The fixed Pennsylvania truss span has the longest span with an estimated span of 400 feet.
This impressive bridge consists of a variety of span types. From west to east the bridge is configured as follows: 8 wooden stringer spans, 1 plate girder span, 1 through plate girder bascule span (Scherzer rolling lift type), 1 Warren through truss with 8 panels, 1 large sixteen panel Pennsylvania through truss, and finally another Warren through truss. This bridge is unusual for its variety of span types. It is also unusual for a bridge to have approach spans that are larger than the movable span. Typically, the movable span of a bridge is the largest span. However on this bridge the very large Pennsylvania truss span dwarfs the bascule span. The bascule span and the Pennsylvania truss span are both rare and highly significant in the context of Maine, which has few movable bridges and few truss spans of the length exhibited by the Pennsylvania truss span.
A short distance west of this bridge, there is a very long wooden stringer bridge that serves this same railroad line.
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