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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