Tuesday, October 5, 2010 On second glance, there is more to
understand. This is a railroad bridge, one of only two covered
railroad bridges in the state of New Hampshire. The other is a
short way down the road. There are only about eight of them left
in all of North America. These two railway bridges are called
the Pier Bridge and Wright’s Bridge across the Sugar River in
Newport. I think this one is the Pier Bridge, but I hope someone
out there can either confirm that or set me right. We can see it
is under renovation. We may assume the portable toilet will not
be a permanent part of its restoration design. The Piers Bridge
was built in 1907 by the Boston and Maine Railroad to replace an
earlier bridge from the 1870s. It is the longest covered railway
bridge in the world. Listed on the National Register of Historic
Places, the citizens of Newport have been working diligently to
raise funds to preserve their covered bridges as historic
treasures and as examples of their own personal heritage. That
is the emot