Recent Delaware Comments

The railroad is effectively a "dead-end" branch-line railroad ending at an industry about a mile east of the bridge, with only one crew, one locomotive, etc. The trains operates at fairly low speed. The crew members on the train are often (usually? I've seen a guy in a truck drive out to close the bridge in advance once...) the ones cranking the bridge open and close. It's akin to the gate or garage door at the end of a driveway being open or close before you drive out onto the road--you don't need a signal to tell you your gate or garage door is open or not, do you?

Wow, very unique bridge. But how does the railroad know when the bridge is open? Does the open bridge turn the railroad signal to "red" status?

Do you know who the architect was or the project engineer for this bridge? Any information would be appreciated. Thank you

Do you know who the architect was or the project engineer for this bridge? Any information would be appreciated. Thank you

The original bridge here was a covered bridge with a stone arch approach built in 1833. The covered bridge was replaced but the stone arch bridge approach is still there and open to traffic. Both bridges were recently worked on in 2009. So exactly how would you list that on here the stone arch is across a old mill race that has been filled in, and actually has its own NBI data........thoughts.

This bridge is in New Castle County not Kent County.

This bridge is in New Castle County not Kent County.

Has long since been locked in place and all equipment related to opening removed.

This bridge is the same design as the Rehoboth Road bridge on Business Route 1 in Milford, DE. I looked at the Wisconsin bridges and look to be the same.

This is a Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge designed by the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company. The designer for the Milford bridge was Keller and Harrington. Keller and Harrington were former Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge company employees.

This bridge no longer operates and the one in Milford operates only a few times a year.

This bridge looks remarkably similar to the Eureka WI Fox River bridge and the Kewaunee WI bridge. It seems to have been a stock design to allow navigation for smaller vessels.

Judging by condition when photographed, this bridge has been rehabilitated again in recent years (certainly some time in the last 10 years and well after 1979 as indicted under facts). The bridge deck is in good to very good condition. It is not posted so you should probably assume it is not structurally deficient although it may be functionally obsolete.

This bridge was rehabilitated a couple years ago.

This bridge no longer operates.

This bridge no longer operates.

This bridge no longer operates.

I believe this bridge was originally design by Hardesty & Hanover but was originally at another location along the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal. I think they floated it down stream and erected it in a new location.

This bridge was designed by Hardesty & Hanover in the 1980s.