Josh Schmid, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) Partially open bridge from northwest
When I searched for Ashtabula to check out what was left of the NYC/LS&MS ore docks, Google Maps offered the following as the "signature" photo for the town.
This looked similar to a Strauss heel-trunnion bascule bridge design, but there were enough differences that I suspected it was designed by someone else and the differences avoided patent infringement. Sure enough, Bridge Hunter indicates the "Patent Engineer/Design" is Thomas Ellis Brown. And Historic Bridges indicates it is one of the few surviving Brown type bascule bridges left in the country, and the only one in Ohio.
(Update: The 1911 Bridge Hunter page for the Duwamish River Bridge was my source concerning Strauss' earlier design.) The railroad bridge may have been owned by a terminal railroad that allowed NYC, NKP and Pennsy to access the ore docks. The bridge is an early Strauss heel-trunnion design. And, unlike other early designs I have seen, this 1911 bridge has not been converted to Strauss' later design. This early design has the machinery room on top of the movable span and the operating strut is fixed to the counterweight tower. By 1919, Strauss had moved the machinery room to the counterweight tower and fixed the operating strut to the movable span. Below is a closeup of the two bridges on the South Branch of the Chicago River that have the modern design. I highlighted the operating strut of the near bridge, which is closed, in red and the strut of the far bridge, which is open, in yellow. You can see that the strut comes out the back of the tower as the bridge is raised. That photo allows you to compare the modern design with the earlier design still used in this bridge.
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In this earlier design, the strut moves into the span. And you can see the machinery house on top of the movable span.
Walter Gunter posted N&S Drawbridge. Ashtabula harbor. N.E. Ohio. Walter GunterWorked as a Conrail brakeman in the mid 70s . We moved alot of coal & ore over it.Mike ShinskyI was there this summer the yard is for mostly stone now.
( 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...
( 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...
Big Tunnel: ( Bridge Hunter , indianarrtunnels ) Big Tunnel: Satellite plus Paint Originally built in 1857 for the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad and since controlled by the B & O, it is now a part of CSX. It was shortened and brick lined in 1898. A 1700 foot companion tunnel known as "Little Tunnel" was 'daylighted' (turned into a cut) in 1899. [Bridge Hunter] It was dug for a 6-foot gauge railroad. [ IndianaRRtunnels ] Two of the several photos posted by Carlton Crasher. Jacob Leukhardt Should be one train a day Mon-Fri. The J783 local. I believe it runs between Mitchel and somewhere east of North Vernon. I believe it only runs one direction a day so for example, if it goes westbound to Mitchel on Monday, it should go east on Tuesday, then back west Wednesday and so on. Dennis DeBruler Thanks for contributing photos to Bridge Hunter and for taking photos of B&O's CPL signals . One advantage of CSX not liking this B&O route is that they don'...
Worked as a Conrail brakeman in the mid 70s . We moved alot of coal & ore over it.Mike Shinsky I was there this summer the yard is for mostly stone now.
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