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Mianus River Railroad Bridge
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Mianus River Railroad Bridge
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| Location: | AMTRAK Right-of-way at Mianus River, Greenwich, Connecticut |
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| Area: | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built: | 1904 |
| Architect: | American Bridge Company |
| Architectural style: | Deck Girder,Bascule |
| Governing body: | State |
| MPS: | Movable Railroad Bridges on the NE Corridor in Connecticut TR |
| NRHP Reference#: | 87000845[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | June 12, 1987 |
The Mianus River Railroad Bridge, also known as the Cos Cob Bridge, is a bascule bridge built in 1904 over the Mianus River, in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.[1] It is operated by the Metro-North Railroad, successor to Conrail, Penn Central, and the New Haven Railroad, which erected it, and is owned by the Connecticut Department of Transportation.
It is a rolling lift type moveable bridge.
It was prefabricated by the American Bridge Company, to replace a previous bridge on the site which was unsafe.[2]
The nearby Cos Cob Railroad Station is also NRHP-listed.
It is one of eight moveable bridges on the Amtrak route through Connecticut surveyed in one multiple property study in 1986.[3] The eight bridges from west to east are: this Mianus River Railroad Bridge, at Cos Cob, built in 1904; Norwalk River Railroad Bridge at South Norwalk, 1896; Saugatuck River Railroad Bridge at Westport, 1905; Pequonnock River Railroad Bridge at Bridgeport, 1902; Housatonic River Railroad Bridge, at Devon, 1905; Connecticut River Railroad Bridge, Old Saybrook-Old Lyme, 1907; Niantic River Bridge, East Lyme-Waterford, 1907; and Thames River Bridge (Amtrak), Groton, built in 1919. The Pequonnock River bridge -- also on Metro-North's New Haven Line, as are the Norwalk, Westport, and Devon bridges -- has since been replaced.
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