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CN - Collateral Channel Bridge
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Photo taken by Steve Conro in September 2012
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BH Photo #240262
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
Facts
- Overview
- Deck plate girder bridge over Collateral Channel 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 of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroads
- - Canadian National Railway (CN)
- Chicago & Illinois Western Railway (C&IW)
- Design
- Rall single-leaf roller bascule
- Dimensions
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Total length: 135.0 ft.
- Also called
- CIW - Collateral Channel Bridge
- 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)
- Quadrangle map:
- Englewood
- Inventory number
- BH 50918 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 30, 2013: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- August 20, 2013: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- September 26, 2012: New photo from Steve Conro
- January 12, 2012: Added by Frank Hicks