North Woodstock-Clark's Trading Post Railroad Covered Bridge

Grafton County, New Hampshire  New Hampshire No. 64 (WGN 29-05-14)  (WGCB NH-05-14):  (1904; moved from Vermont to New Hampshire 1960; reassembled 1965)  (Private) A single-span Howe truss 116' over the Pemigewasset River.  Location: East of US 3 at Clark's Trading Post on Clark's Short Steam Railroad in North Woodstock, New Hampshire.  Directions:  From I-93 Exit 32, take SR 112 [Main Street] (North) to left into Clark's Trading Post on Clark's Short Steam Railroad in North Woodstock, New Hampshire.  The structure was originally built in Barre, Vermont (former Vermont WGN 45-12-16) on the Barre Railroad, a short line railroad running between Montpelier and Barre, Vermont, to span the Winooski River. In 1960 both the railroad line and the covered bridge were abandoned. Ed Clark and his brother Murray dismantled the bridge in East Montpelier, Vermont and brought it in pieces to its present site. The present abutments were constructed using granite blocks from an abandoned Maine Central Railroad bridge that crossed the Connecticut River in Coos County, New Hampshire. In 1965 the bridge was reassembled on dry land next to the Pemigewasset River and positioned over the river using a half-track trailer. The covered bridge is still used as a part of Clark's Short Steam Railroad and is America’s only covered bridge still in use by a railroad.  It also appears to be the only Howe truss railroad bridge left in the world.  It was also known as the Pinsley Railroad Covered Bridge. Admission to the trading post is not required to visit and/or photograph the bridge.  It is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.    (Sep 2004)

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