This blog could be filed under 'Agent with too much time on his hands.' The fact is that there is a lot of history in these old New England cities. Around the turn of the 20th century a group of engineers were brought into this bustling shoe manufacturing city of nearly 100,000. Their mission was to design a rail system that would expidite the transportation of output from the many factories. The result of their labor was a rail line that ran the length of the city, including through the center. At no point, however, did any vehicles ever have to stop for,or cross railroad tracks. Close to a dozen points of the north to south rail line that intersected the east to west street traffic were designed so that one passed over, or under, the other. Most of the original bridgework is...
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