Originally named the Cottage Farm Bridge (after a nearby Brookline neighborhood), the bridge was built in 1928. Designed by Desmond & Lord, it replaced an 1850s drawbridge called the Brookline Bridge.

Contrary to popular myth, the BU Bridge is not the only place in the world where a boat can row under a train ridden under a car driven under an airplane; the Steel Bridge across the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, and the 25 de Abril Bridge in Lisbon, Portugal, claim the same quirky distinction.

But it is likely to be one of the only bridges where you’ll spot a Terrier rowing under a Grand Junction Railroad train chugging under a biking BU professor riding next to clutch of Red Sox fans walking next to a bus full of commuters riding under a flight full of BU spring breakers. We suppose.

Read more about the history of the BU Bridge as written in 2009 in BU Today. (Note that, in the years since, the renovation of the BU bridge and the CSX railroad bridge have been completed.)