The quality of this picture is poor but you can see the essential result of the reconstruction that took 2 years.
The picture from 1900 shows that the foreground section was not finished as it is in the picture.
About on third up on the left side on f the image you can see the curved roadway that was used to connect to the mainland while the straight section was being built.
The Coal Pockets facility was there on the right ( south side) of the bridge.
Ships laden with coal would pull up to the facility and empty coal from a shute into the different coal pockets according to size and hardness, bituminous (soft), anthracite (hard) and by size for select uses.
The roadbed appears to be paved. There is also the set of trolley tracks embedded into the road.
This is the view is looking toward Fairhaven
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