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There are a lot of photos of the current Strauss trunnion-heel bridge . Photos of the swingbridge that existed before the tracks were elevated and the river was straightened are rare enough that they deserve there own posting rather than getting lost in the existing posting. Paul Petraitis posted 11am 9/23/1905, Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District Ean Kahn-Treras   We are looking off of 18th Street in this view. The elevated track is the IC iowa division curving for their crossing of the RI at 16th Street. Mark E. Vaughan   Wasn’t the Erie carfloat interchange operation in this area also? Bob Lalich   The Erie Lake Line had two stations, both of which were farther north. Information describing the operations can be found here:  http://freepages.rootsweb.com/.../genealogy/erielakechi.html Bob Lalich commented on Paul's posting The bridge seen here is the SCAL swing bridge. The yard here is C&WI's 18th St Yard. 16th St Tower can be seen i...

1878  Superior Viaduct:    ( Bridge Hunter ; Satellite , note that the streetcar tracks still exist in part of it) 1917+1965+1997  Detroit-Superior High Level Bridge:    ( Bridge Hunter ; Historic Bridges ; HAER ; 3D Satellite , 174+ photos) Photo  from  ClevelandHistorical , Image courtesy of Cleveland State Library Special Collections A view of the viaduct shortly after it opened in 1878. The following photo raised the question of why does a stone viaduct just end? The short answer is that the swing span was removed after the Superior Viaduct was replaced by the Detroit-Superior High Level Bridge. As you can image, the rest of this page is the long answer. Robert Pempsell posted The first high-level bridge across the Cuyahoga Valley was started in March 1875 and opened in Dec. 1878. Because it had a swing span, road traffic would still be stopped by some river traffic. But there would be far fewer stoppages than suffered by the low-level br...

( 1911 Bridge Hunter ,  1928 Bridge Hunter , 3D Satellite ) While looking at a satellite map for the BNSF/GN bridge over the Lake Washington Ship Canal , I spotted this bridge on the satellite map. And then within 24 hours I saw this posting. Guy Prior posted the comment: Hello fellow bridge and tunnel admirers I have just acquired the Walthers bascule bridge. Reading the blurb it stated that this model is based on the real thing crossing the Duwamish river in Seattle Washington. Apparently it is still in use by BNSF and I was wondering if anyone had a photo of a bascule bridge crossing the Duwamish they could share? 🤔 🤔 . I want to maybe give it that look, anything will help. Cheers 🤓 Nicholas Boyd commented on Guy's posting The Bridge Hunter pages for this bridge taught me that Strauss' early designs put the lift machinery on the end of the top cord of the movable span and his later designs moved the machinery to the stationary counterweight tower. The Strauss bridge in A...

( Bridge Hunter ; Historic Bridges ; HAER ; see below for satellite) WLE = Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway Evidently it is called Benwood instead of Bellaire because B&O had their yard on the Benwood, WV side. Also, the state line is on the Ohio side of the river, so most of the truss work is in West Virginia. Note the "ramps" on the upstream side of the piers to breakup ice flows. Photo  from HAER WVA,26-BEN,1--1  from wv0122 I saved a copy of the satellite images because of the nice shadows. I labeled these notes with bridgeArch as well as bridgeTruss because of the 1871 stone arch approach on the Bellaire, OH side. You can get a close look at sandstone arches without getting your feet wet. The route that used this approach has been abandoned. Satellite Satellite Street View Street View C Hanchey ,  License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) Carl Venzke posted Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Benwood Bridge, Benwood, Marshall County, WV Historic ...

( Satellite ; BNSF/Santa Fe is on the left, UP/GM&O is on the right) Why yet another still girder RR bridge? Because I was impressed by the amount of concrete used here to channelize the creek. It has natural shores at the Metra/Rock Island overpass and the dam . Zaky Joseph posted Two Santa Fe warbonnet b40-8Ws head west, accelerating quickly out of Joliet, Illinois on a Z-WSP STO (Willow Springs, Illinois to Stockton, California) intermodal train. 11/25/97 Nick Hart   Ah, right along Chicago Street near Patterson. Nice. Dennis DeBruler   Over Hickory Creek:  https://www.google.com/.../data=!3m6!1e1!3m4... You can see high-water marks on Zaky's photo and the street view. Street View

( original I-74 bridges ,  Webcam , satellite is below) The $1.2 billion dollar project not only includes the new bridge, it includes a lot of road work on both sides of the river. Quite a few buildings were torn down, including a depot , in Bettendorf, IA for a new road alignment. A bed containing about 450,000 mussels had to be moved before the piers could be built. Screenshot  from Presentation on   Materials Satellite I'm using Bing instead of Google because Google is not showing any activity yet. This crane photo is what let me know that construction had started on the replacement bridge and that it was time to reasearch the new bridge again. Matt Saddoris commented on a  posting , cropped Ben Stalvey   Micheles MLC 300? Matt Saddoris   Maxim  Moline, Illinois Map  from Materials Before they built the dam a couple of miles downstream from here, this stretch of the river must have been a rapids. That means the river scoured the bottom do...

(no Bridge Hunter?; no Historic Bridges; Satellite , 24 photos) Mark Hinsdale posted Amtrak Train #81, the southbound "Silver Star" soars over the shallow James River at Richmond VA, the day after Thanksgiving in November, 1983. Ownership between the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad to the north, and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to the south, was divided at a point called "Pier 5" in the middle of this graceful concrete arch bridge, constructed by the two companies in 1919. Anne Rhodes , Apr 2018 Street View

I've read that the air line leaks worse in cold weather. Now I've learned that the leakage can be bad enough that they have to boost the locomotive's air compressor supply for the air brakes. Michael Riha posted CN's Distributed Braking Container (keeps up the air on long trains in cold climates) at Woodcrest Shops

( Bridge Hunter ; no Historic Bridges; no Chicago Loop Bridges;  Satellite , removed  in 1929 so it doesn't appear in a 1938 aerial photo either) While researching the B&OCT bridge across the South Branch before it was straightened , I found some information on the swing and rolling bridges that used to be at Taylor Street. Period postcard , License: Released into public domain Below, in the background, is the Taylor Street rolling bridge in the upright position. It appears that a dredging machine is working under it. Or is it a marine crane that is removing the center pier for the former swing bridge? Martin G. Sorenson  posted Chicago circa 1900. "12th Street Bascule Bridge." Dinosaurs of the ... top (north) bridge is no longer in use - it served the old Grand Central Station (B&O and others) at Wells and Harrison until the late 50s. David Daruszka   The boat is a tour boat of the recently completed "drainage canal". The Sanitary and Ship Canal was an ...

( Bridge Hunter , Satellite ) WACR = Washington County Railroad From what little I have studied of New England railroads, it seems the B&M got split up into a lot of small pieces. Bridge Hunter indicates that Karley's comment below is wrong because this bridge is not part of the Vermont Railway. Karley Kuehl posted two photos with the comment: To paraphrase another report, "With no ocean coastline, Vermont might have seemed an unlikely candidate to be devastated by a hurricane" When 10 inches of rain hits a mountainous region, it's pretty scary stuff. It will be 7 years later this month that this state got a swift kick in the groin area courtesy of Mother Nature and hurricane Irene. Needless to say numerous railroad operations were crippled. The pictures are the White River crossing of Vermont Railway in White River Junction Vermont. It was closed the longest of all repairs that took place, as they ended up replacing the entire pier. Anthony Migliaccio   Classic p...