Rapallo Viaduct, East Hampton, Connecticut

In the last couple of weeks we have been actively and joyously participating in adding our photographs to the American Experience interactive initiative The Engineering Map of America, at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/interactive-map/penn-engineering/.  We just put up more pins of Connecticut’s engineering marvels!  These include:

• Rapallo Viaduct in East Hampton and Lyman Viaduct in Colchester, both built in 1873 for the Boston & New York Air Line Railroad and now part of the Air Line State Park Trail
• Taft Tunnel in Lisbon, the oldest (1837) railroad tunnel in the U.S. still in existence used in its original form
• The USS Nautilus, the first nuclear powered submarine in the world, now a historic site at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton
• and the steam turbine “Mary Ann” built for the Hartford Electric Light Company in 1901 and installed in their Pearl Street, Hartford, generating station.

Let me know if you can recommend other engineering marvels in the state and I will check to see if we have a photograph in the collection.