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Week of 18 September 1998 Vol. II, No. 6 BU Yesterday Bridge to the past: When the BU Bridge (originally called the Cottage Farm Bridge) opened 70 years ago, contemporary newspaper accounts stated that it would form "one of the main links in the main traffic artery between the North and South Shores of Massachusetts." This photograph, from 1949, showing a pair of steam locomotives pulling a string of boxcars toward Cambridge, reminds us that the Boston & Albany Railroad bridge under the BU Bridge was also an essential link in North Shore-South Shore traffic. The partly obscured Cadillac-Olds sign is on the roof of 808 Commonwealth Ave., now a BU building but still known to many as the Fuller Building. Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library Print Department