I might use those piers for my bridge!
Also here is another bridge.
Steve
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!
South Penn bridge piers across the Susquehanna River near Harrisburg Pa. The bridge was never completed.
That is a very interesting bridge! (That goes for both the one SouthPenn posted and the one DSchmitt posted)
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.
Here are another two.
Very interesting!
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
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!
Wow cool!
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/
Well here are some more bridges!
Now this bridge is not interesting in its design but it is in its use!
And yet more bridges!
That's all folks!
Here are some more bridges.
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
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
Here's one:
Cape Cod Canal railroad bridge at Buzzards Bay
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 are some more bridges!
These are some I've already posted!
Ahh, thank you!
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.
What pray tell might that mean?
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.
Interesting!
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.
Ahh, nice bridge!
The Hurricane Gulch Bridge on the Alaska Railroad. 296' over the river on the mainline, originally built in 1921 and still in use, trains are limited to 5mph while traveling over the bridge.
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Then in that case we need to focus on documenting them as much as possible!
It is not possible to save most historic bridges. In the US they go through a rigorous documentation procedure that can take a couple years, the end result being that a record and photographs are retained in Washington, DC. This includes plans if they exist.
We dont even have enough money to maintain structures still in use, so maintaining obsolete bridges is not possible save for a very few specially significant bridges.
John
A civil engineer