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Howe designed many churches and meeting houses, some of which required long truss spans for the roof. His brother Elias invented the sewing machine and brother Tyler the spring bed. He was one of the three inventive Howe bothers. Howe was a millwright from Spencer, Massachusetts, located about 8 miles west of Worcester and on the line of the railroad. Long for the bridge until William Howe came to them with a new plan that he claimed was superior to the Long Truss. They were planning on using Long Trusses by Stephen H. Swift, who were all early graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point. The engineers for the Connecticut River crossing were William Gibbs McNeil, George Washington Whistler and William H. Burr’s Trenton Bridge (STRUCTURE, June 2014) across the Delaware was retrofitted for railroad service in 1835 and Moncure Robinson built several long Town Lattice Trusses for the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad as well as the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad in Virginia. Other early wooden railroad bridges were by Lewis Wernwag over the Monocacy River and Harper’s Ferry over the Potomac River for the B & O Railroad (STRUCTURE, August 2014). On the western segment, many bridges were short stone arches. Up to this time, most wooden bridges were constructed to the design of Stephen H. To make the connection across the Connecticut River required a long bridge. Springfield to the New York State over the lower Berkshire Mountains was completed on May 4, 1841. The Western Railroad reached the easterly shore of the Connecticut River at Springfield on October 1, 1839. This was followed by the Western Railroad, which would begin in Worcester and run to the New York State line, connecting with the Hudson and Berkshire line that ran to Albany, New York, on the Hudson River. The Boston and Worcester Railroad, one of the first railroads built in Massachusetts, was chartered in 1831 and opened to Worcester in 1835.
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First Railroad Bridge across the Connecticut River in Massachusetts