I noticed that Cleveland has quite a few lift bridges for roads as well as railroads. After Chicago built the Halsted Street Bridge, they decided lift bridges would be too ugly for use in the downtown area so the invented their Chicago Style trunnion bascule design.
Photo by C Hanchey, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC), Flickr
Bridge Hunter has a build date of 1947. But Historic Bridges explains the project to widen the river was started in 1946, but this bridge was completed in 1958. C Hanchey's Flickr page also uses the 1958 date. I assume the truss on top carry pipes.
Kenneth James White posted Norfolk Southern (and before that Conrail, and before that Penn Central, and before that New York Central!) lift bridge at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in me hometown of Cleveland. Known locally as the"Iron Curtain". Brandon LeeKnown on the RR as bridge one.
Cleveland Public Library Photo Credit, License: Released into public domain Old and New - Construction 1956
(new window) You can tell it is a more modern bridge, the train is going pretty fast for a movable bridge. Fast train speeds would be important for Norfolk Southern and Amtrak since this is on their mainline between Chicago and New York. At 3:21, at second train crosses the bridge. At 4:46, the trains are done and the span starts to lift.
Wayne Koch posted Cleveland OH Railyard NYC PRR 1949. John PencaBridge one in the photo was a swing bridge later replaced by a two track lift bridge which NS uses today. Paul VolosynCool seeing one come off the Clark branch and heading west on the Chicago line. Also the B&O coming across bridge 464 (by shooters) and heading to the interchange with the NYC. Great photo.
Wayne Koch posted Gem. NYC EMD F7 class DFA-2f 1671, Cuyahoga River drawbridge, Cleveland, OH 1960s NYCSHS.
(new window) At 3:00, it sounds like the ship has a steam engine. Only the first two scenes are at night. At 6:20, Hulett unloaders are in the background! 7:49 shows the rolling bascule bridge. In the foreground at 10:59 we see how jointed rail becomes wavy if it is not maintained. At 12:32 you realize he has been riding up with the span.
(new window) Note when it raises at 3:57 that this bridge has very little clearance. Even small pleasure boats have to wait for it to go up. Even ski- jets and kayaks?
( Bridge Hunter , 3D Satellite ) I don't normally do yet another steel tied-arch bridge, but when you get a view as unique as this, I went for it. This is "reverse railfan." Specifically, it is a photo from a train instead of a train. And at the bottom is some photos of the cantilever truss that it replaced. William A. Shaffer posted The Jefferson Barracks Bridge at St. Louis, MO (Shot through the window of Amtrak #22 en route to St. Louis) (Photo by William A. Shaffer) By Service Depicted: Other ServiceCamera Operator: SSGT PAUL GRIFFIN - ID:DFST9500065 , Public Domain, Link Roads and farmland in St. Louis area are hard hit by floodwaters. Location: SAINT LOUIS, ILLINOIS (IL) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA) 1993 Westbound bridge built 1984; eastbound bridge built 1990, The navigation channel span is 910'. Missouri State Archives from Flickr The eastbound span of the Jefferson Barracks (I-255) bridge was opened in December 1990, not 1986. It was opened right around the...
( Bridge Hunter , Historic Bridges , HAER , Satellite ) P&LE = Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Photo from HAER PA,4-BEAV,1--1 from pa3716 One of 26 images posted by Mike Brady [Many of the images show the stresses calculated for each member of the truss.] Pictures are of the original Stress sheet of the P&LE cantilever bridge at Monaca - Beaver PA . Appears to be drawn on vellum type paper using a ink well pen. All of the math about the bridge is here. Live load,dead load, impact load and wind load Date is Jan. 31, 1908. Bought this on eBay around 20 years ago. Was unaware at the time of purchase of what I was getting. Wow, when I actually received it. Total calculated design load on one of the main bearings is 11,994.000 or 12 million pounds or ( 6 thousand tons). One of 26 images posted by Mike Brady Photo taken by Bob Harris in May 2012 from Bridge Hunter ( new window ) Mark Arnold posted five photos with the comment: " CSX's Ohio River cross...
I've noticed that NYC and Los Angeles have to pay a lot for water supply whereas Chicago has to pay a lot for water removal. I knew NYC dammed rivers in the mountains that are north of the city and then used tunnels (aqueducts) to transport the water into the city. What I did not know, until I studied the Cannonsville Dam , is that they also get water from the Delaware River watershed, which is a lot further away. Since I found this overview map, I'm writing this post to record it. Project Description , page 6 from nyc.gov A NY Times article about a leak in the Cannonsville Dam focuses on the people aspect of the dam. If you look at the map, Deposit, NY is downstream of the Cannonsville Dam. The residents are still bitter that 1000 people, including entire towns, were displaced over a half-century ago when the dam was built. Now they are bitter that they have to worry about the risk of living downstream of a dam. Since a big river flows right through them, they question why N...
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