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MWSER Chicago River Bridge

Cook County, Illinois
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Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway bridge

1911 - View of Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway Company elevated bascule bridge over the Chicago River between West Van Buren Street and West Jackson Boulevard in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. An elevated train is crossing the bridge in this image.

Chicago Daily News negatives collection, DN-0056530. Courtesy of Chicago History Museum.

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Description 

This bridge - actually a pair of double-track bridges side by side - was the very first Scherzer rolling lift bridge ever designed. It was designed by William Scherzer just prior to his death in July 1893 and was constructed in 1895 at the same time as the adjacent Van Buren Street bridge, a Scherzer rolling lift bridge designed after William Scherzer's death. -- Info from HAER Report MA-35, Fort Point Channel Rolling Lift Bridge

Facts 

Overview
Lost Pony truss bridge over Chicago River on West Side Elevated Railroad
Location
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Status
Removed but not replaced
History
Built 1895 for Metropolitan-West Side Elevated Railroad, removed c1958
Design
Truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.87755, -87.63769   (decimal degrees)
41°52'39" N, 87°38'16" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/447087/4636377 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Chicago Loop
Inventory number
BH 52688 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,822)
Bascule (559)
Built 1895 (156)
Built during 1890s (1,556)
Chicago, Illinois (99)
Cook County, Illinois (168)
Illinois (2,500)
 Lost (10,373)
Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad (3)
Movable (1,356)
Navigable waterway (1,449)
Railroad (4,081)
Scherzer-type rolling lift (12)
Truss (23,575)

Update Log 

  • August 13, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Railroad"
  • July 17, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railroad"
  • June 18, 2012: Added by Frank Hicks

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