Ahh, nice bridge!
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_Bridge
Forgot this one, pretty cool to watch. The lower deck (rail) telescopes into the upperdeck (light rail/highway traffic), then the whole thing goes up. Also went to a clinic on this in Portland.
Interesting!
cascadenorthernrr I was on Wikipedia reading about the song "The River of Dreams" by Billy Joel (I'm a huge fan!) anyway in the music video Joel is seen on a railroad truss bridge wearing a suit and sunglasses with a group of men in the same attire singing the song well I know what bridge it is now! It's the Providence & Worcester Railroad Bridge!
I was on Wikipedia reading about the song "The River of Dreams" by Billy Joel (I'm a huge fan!) anyway in the music video Joel is seen on a railroad truss bridge wearing a suit and sunglasses with a group of men in the same attire singing the song well I know what bridge it is now! It's the Providence & Worcester Railroad Bridge!
They got Borg'd (Genessee and Wyoming) last fall.
What pray tell might that mean?
They got bought by Genesee and Wyoming.
https://www.gwrr.com/about_us
Yet somehow they are not a class 1 carrier...seems fishy to me.
Ahh, thank you!
Here are some more bridges!
These are some I've already posted!
Here's a bridge (although not in North America) that is very interesting not only is it a cantilever bridge with steel tower piers but also it has a car ferry hung from the bottom of it!
Here's one:
Cape Cod Canal railroad bridge at Buzzards Bay
A bunch of replies and nobody mentions the Eads; so I guess I will. From Wikipedia. The .JPGs might be pretty large. A photo an a link to another.
Eads Bridge
LINK to SNSR Blog
The C&NW's 1883 stone arch bridge over Oak Creek and Oak Creek Parkway in South Milwaukee WI -- I walked under this bridge every day on my way to high school. This was a fairly common design on the CNW. I'd date this postcard view to around 1900.
As with most stone bridges over time the strain tends to push out the stone, so sometime after WWI they added steel supports on the upper sides, held together tightly with threaded rod that goes through the bridge
The scene is not completed but I modeled this bridge on my layout by kitbashing two Monroe Models #2001 stone arch bridge kits (made of plaster castings). I had copies of the official ICC valuation drawings of the bridge and the measurements were almost exact. Not the best modeling I have ever done (and it was my first experience trying to kitbash with plaster) but it captures the overall look:
Monroe Models was nice enough to feature my model on their website which is where I took these photos from.
Dave Nelson
Here are some more bridges.
And yet more bridges!
That's all folks!
Well here are some more bridges!
Now this bridge is not interesting in its design but it is in its use!
Here is the Firth of Forth bridge in Scotland. Pretty amazing engineering feat since is 127 years old. This rail bridge is still in service today.
Another one is the Kinsol Trestle on Vancouver Island, BC. I don't have a good image link for but google brings up some good images.
Colorado Front Range Railroad: http://www.coloradofrontrangerr.com/
Wow cool!
I would like to let everyone know that Saturday (January 28th) was my birthday and that I got a tour of the Old Vicksburg Bridge by the Superintendent Herman Smith while a Union Pacific double stack intermodal well car/trailer on spine car train led by four GE locomotives (UP-ES44AC 8243, UP-ES44AC 7829, UP-ES44AC 5321, and UP-AC4400CW 7226) then while I was leaving another Kansas City Southern/Norfolk Southern double stack intermodal well car/trailer on spine car train led by three GE locomotives (KCS-ES44AC, NS-C40-9, NS-C44-9CW) both trains were eastbound. Well that concludes my visit to the Old Vicksburg Bridge!
I like the old CGW lift bridge in downtown St. Paul:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Paul_Union_Pacific_Vertical-lift_Rail_Bridge
Gary
Very interesting!
Here are another two.
I Street Bridge, Sacramento California Double deck swing bridge - highway over railroad.
https://bridgehunter.com/ca/yolo/22C0153/
I tried to sell my two cents worth, but no one would give me a plug nickel for it.
I don't have a leg to stand on.
That is a very interesting bridge! (That goes for both the one SouthPenn posted and the one DSchmitt posted)
South Penn bridge piers across the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg Pa. The bridge was never completed.
I might use those piers for my bridge!
Also here is another bridge.