{"id":4294,"date":"2014-02-20T20:27:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T20:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2014-02-25T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T16:01:59","slug":"weve-added-more-pins-to-the-engineering-map-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2014\/02\/20\/weve-added-more-pins-to-the-engineering-map-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve added more pins to the Engineering Map of America!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/02\/1997-0122_ph0184.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4319\" alt=\"Windsor Locks Canal\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/02\/1997-0122_ph0184.jpg\" width=\"588\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/02\/1997-0122_ph0184.jpg 588w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/02\/1997-0122_ph0184-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2014\/02\/1997-0122_ph0184-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been busy this week adding &#8220;pins&#8221; of photographs from our collections to the Engineering Map of America, created by the people at American Experience to coincide with Tuesday&#8217;s documentary &#8220;The Rise and Fall of Penn Station.&#8221; \u00a0Check out the latest here:\u00a0<a title=\"Engineering Map of America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/interactive-map\/penn-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/interactive-map\/penn-engineering\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest pins we put up include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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&#8217;s electrified zone along the Connecticut shoreline<\/li>\n<li>The Middletown Swing Bridge over the Connecticut River, built for the Air Line Division of the New Haven Railroad in 1907<\/li>\n<li>The Almyville Lenticular Bridge in Plainfield, built in 1886 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company<\/li>\n<li>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)<\/li>\n<li>and the Windsor Locks Canal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read about the pins we put up earlier this week in this blog post:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2014\/02\/17\/archives-special-collections-participates-in-pbs-american-experiences-engineering-map-of-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2014\/02\/17\/archives-special-collections-participates-in-pbs-american-experiences-engineering-map-of-america\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re having a great time pinning the photos and hope you&#8217;re having a great time reading about them! 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