page_title: Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge
section_title: Design and construction
hierarchical_section_title: Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge / Design and construction
caption_attribution_description: English: Cape Cod, Mass. (June 13, 2006) - The guided-missile frigate USS Underwood (FFG-36) passes beneath the Buzzards Bay Railroad Bridge after transiting west through the Cape Cod Canal. The canal is a man-made ship channel operated and maintained by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. Underwood is the first U.S. Navy ship to transit the canal in over six years. Underwood is returning home to Mayport, Florida, following a visit to Boston for the city's Navy Week festivities.
context_page_description: The Cape Cod Canal Railroad Bridge, a vertical lift bridge in Bourne, Massachusetts near Buzzards Bay, carries railroad traffic across the Cape Cod Canal, connecting Cape Cod with the mainland.
context_section_description: The bridge was constructed beginning in 1933 by the Public Works Administration from a design by firms Parsons, Klapp, Brinckerhoff, and Douglas as well as Mead and White (both of New York), for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which operates both the bridge and the canal.  The bridge has a 544-foot (166 m) main span, with a 135-foot (41 m) clearance when raised, uses 1,100-short-ton (1,000 t) counterweights on each end, and opened on December 29, 1935. The bridge replaced a bascule bridge that had been built in 1910.
  At the time of its completion, it was the longest vertical lift span in the world.  It is now the second longest lift bridge in the United States, the longest being the Arthur Kill Vertical Lift Bridge between New Jersey and Staten Island, New York.
caption: The U.S. Navy frigate USS Underwood passing under the bridge
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