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Passenger operations resume over repaired Connecticut bridge
1869? That is historic!
Small correction… The bridge is a swing bridge, not a lift bridge.
The actual date of the bridge is 1894. It replaced a much older bridge that was built around 1850s.
The Northeast corridor is filled with ancient structures that have been patched up for decades. When I first worked with Amtrak in the 80s we engineering trainees visited a very small swing bridge near Mystic that was being opened and closed by hand 24/7 since the “bull” gear had broken and was on order. I also remember a overhead RR bridge near Wilmington DE that had holes in the web of the main girder big enough to toss a football through. The only comfort in all this is that the same disintegration is happening in the interstate highway system, thus garnering the publics attention (I495 in DE closed indef due to bridge problems).