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 , 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...
( Satellite , three slips allowed them to make six ships at a time because they were launched sideways.) Later, they switched to fewer, but bigger ships. They were built in a dry dock and then floated out. Pete Martin posted My grandfather in drydock 2 at shipyard. Prob 1966. Dennis DeBruler It started as Chicago Shipbuilding Co. in 1890. https://chicagology.com/harbor/chicagoshipbuildingco/ Tony Margis posted Chicago_Tribune_Sun__Feb_21__1960_ Laura Findeisen Layman I remember seeing these in dry dock. Rod Sellers posted View from the Skyway by Daily Calumet photographer, June 5 1974
Because any remaining old style signals are going to soon be replaced to implement Positive Train Control, some railfans are taking pictures of the signals instead of trains. B&O and Pennsy were the two railroads that had their own unique design of signal heads. I have already covered Pennsy's yellow light positional design . This is looking south along the former B&O branch line (Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton) in Deshler, OH . The tracks just on the other side of the depot is the former B&O mainline to Chicago. Both of these routes are now CSX. 20151101 5338,cropped I cropped the above picture to make it a little easier to see that the horizontal red lights really are lit up. Also, you can see in the lower left corner that the signal head for southbound traffic on the southeast quadrant has a stop aspect. I stepped to the side for the closeup because I was trying to reduce the effect of the sun that was still rather high in the sky. What I inadvertently did was dem...
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