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Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Bridge

Cook County, Illinois
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East Side Of Bridge Looking Northwest

Photo taken for the Historic American Engineering Record

View photos at Library of Congress

Map 

Description 

This bridge is one of the seven surviving 1899 swing bridges built across the Sanitary and Ship Canal.

-- Historic American Engineering Record

Facts 

Overview
Pratt through truss bridge over Sanitary & Ship Canal on Belt Railway of Chicago (former Chicago & Western Indiana RR)
Location
Cicero, Cook County, Illinois
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1899
Design
Pinned Pratt through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.82096, -87.73875   (decimal degrees)
41°49'15" N, 87°44'20" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/438647/4630162 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Englewood
Inventory numbers
HAER IL-79
BH 50834 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,822)
Belt Railway of Chicago (5)
Built 1899 (169)
Built during 1890s (1,556)
Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad (3)
Cicero, Illinois (7)
Cook County, Illinois (168)
HAER documented (782)
Illinois (2,500)
Movable (1,356)
 Navigable waterway (1,449)
Open (28,319)
Owned by railroad (4,052)
Pin-connected (1,521)
Pratt through truss (3,166)
Pratt truss (5,660)
Railroad (4,084)
Swing (535)
Through truss (9,211)
Truss (23,575)

Update Log 

  • September 30, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Belt Railway of Chicago"
  • January 6, 2012: Updated by J.P.: Added categories "HAER documented", "Pin-connected", "Navigable waterway"

Sources 

  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • HAER IL-79 - Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Bridge, Spanning Sanitary & Ship Canal at Nerska Junction, Chicago, Cook County, IL
  • Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth

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