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NS - Calumet River Bridge

Cook County, Illinois

Photos 

Photo taken by Steve Conro in September 2012

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BH Photo #240026

Map 

Street View 

Facts 

Overview
Warren through truss bridge over Calumet River on Norfolk Southern Railroad (former Nickel Plate Ry)
Location
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
Status
Open
History
Built 1971
Builder
- American Bridge Co. of New York
Railroads
- New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad (NKP)
- Norfolk & Western Railway (NW)
- Norfolk Southern Railway (NS)
Design
Warren through truss
Also called
NKP - Calumet River Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.66600, -87.56435   (decimal degrees)
41°39'58" N, 87°33'52" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/453017/4612847 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Lake Calumet
Inventory number
BH 53633 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

American Bridge Co. (1,660)
Built 1971 (119)
Built during 1970s (993)
Calumet River (20)
Chicago, Illinois (331)
Cook County, Illinois (490)
Have street view (28,899)
Illinois (4,929)
Movable (3,114)
Navigable waterway (2,204)
New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad (120)
 Norfolk & Western Railway (636)
Norfolk Southern Railway (2,094)
Open (40,969)
Owned by railroad (13,500)
Railroad (16,458)
Through truss (16,775)
Truss (35,451)
Vertical lift (428)
Warren through truss (1,704)
Warren truss (7,001)

Update Log 

  • September 11, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Navigable waterway", "New York, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad", "Railroad"
  • September 11, 2013: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
  • September 25, 2012: Updated by Steve Conro: Added category "Norfolk Southern Railway"

Sources 

  • Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Douglas Butler
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NS - Calumet River Bridge
Posted August 25, 2021, by John Zeiger (Jfz219 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

This bridge was operational in the summer of 1970. The Nickel Plate division referred to it as Cummins Drawbridge. The Erie Lacawannah bridge immediately east of Cummins was irreparably damaged by a ship that same summer.