We’ve been busy this week adding “pins” of photographs from our collections to the Engineering Map of America, created by the people at American Experience to coincide with Tuesday’s documentary “The Rise and Fall of Penn Station.”  Check out the latest here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/interactive-map/penn-engineering/

The latest pins we put up include:

• The Cedar Hill Rail Yards in New Haven, Connecticut, which served four divisions of the New Haven Railroad and was the last stop of the rail line’s electrified zone along the Connecticut shoreline
• The Middletown Swing Bridge over the Connecticut River, built for the Air Line Division of the New Haven Railroad in 1907
• The Almyville Lenticular Bridge in Plainfield, built in 1886 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company
• The Devon Bridge, a railroad bridge over the Housatonic River between Milford and Stratford, Connecticut, which runs adjacent to Interstate 95 (a big thank you to David Jacobs, a doctoral candidate here at UConn, whose dissertation is on the bridge and who critiqued the write-up and provided the photograph)
• and the Windsor Locks Canal.

You can read about the pins we put up earlier this week in this blog post: https://blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu/archives/2014/02/17/archives-special-collections-participates-in-pbs-american-experiences-engineering-map-of-america/

We’re having a great time pinning the photos and hope you’re having a great time reading about them!  Please contact Laura if you have any ideas of other important engineering feats in the state.