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Chicago & Illinois Western Railway Bridge

Cook County, Illinois
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Photo taken by Steve Conro in September 2012

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Description 

The Chicago & Illinois Western (C&IW) Railway Bridge is a rare-surviving example of a patented bridge design by Theodor Rall. The Rall type was one of the designs used by the railroads in the early twentieth century, and is significant for combining the bascule bridge technologies of both rolling and trunnion motion.

-Commision on Chicago Landmarks, Historic Chicago Railroad Bridges report

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Overview
Deck plate girder bridge over Slip of Sanitary and Ship Canal on Chicago & Western Illinois Railroad
Location
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1914; intact but fixed, in use locked down
Builders
- Strobel Steel Construction Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Theodor Rall
Design
Rall single-leaf roller bascule
Dimensions
Total length: 135.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.83400, -87.70200   (decimal degrees)
41°50'02" N, 87°42'07" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/441710/4631584 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Englewood
Inventory number
BH 50918 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Bascule (559)
Built 1914 (532)
Built during 1910s (6,729)
Chicago & Illinois Western Railway (1)
Chicago, Illinios (1)
Cook County, Illinois (167)
Deck girder (1,797)
Girder (3,233)
Illinois (2,499)
Movable (1,355)
 Navigable waterway (1,448)
Open (28,302)
Owned by railroad (4,037)
Plate girder (2,248)
Railroad (4,068)
Rall Bascule Lift (2)
Strobel Steel Construction Co. (6)
Theodor Rall (1)
Total length 125-175 feet (4,136)

Update Log 

  • September 26, 2012: New photo from Steve Conro
  • January 12, 2012: Added by Frank Hicks

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