BO - Calumet River Bridge
Photos
B&O - Calumet River Bridge
Counterweight left after a ship collision
Photo taken by Douglas Butler
License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
BH Photo #263689
Video
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Bridge (South Chicago IL) A video discussing the construction and the collision of this railroad bascule drawbridge Douglas Butler |
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Baltimore through bridge over Calumet River on B&O Railroad ( 2 tracks)
- Location
- South Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
- Status
- Destroyed by collision
- History
- Built 1912- 1914, Destroyed 1988 leaving but a counterweight
- Builders
- - F.S. Harvey (President Engineer)
- H.A. Field (Assistant Engineer of Bridges)
- Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Strauss Engineering Co. [also known as Strauss Bascule Bridge Co.]
- Railroads
- - Amtrak (AMTK)
- Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad (BOCT)
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (BO)
- CSX Railroad (CSX)
- Chicago Short Line Railroad
- Design
- Baltimore through truss bascule
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 235.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.72065, -87.54328 (decimal degrees)
41°43'14" N, 87°32'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/454810/4618904 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lake Calumet
- Inventory number
- BH 57590 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 21, 2021: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 14, 2021: New photo from Douglas Butler
- January 19, 2019: New photo from Douglas Butler
- November 21, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- October 25, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- March 23, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 15, 2017: New photo from Douglas Butler
- July 28, 2017: New photo from Douglas Butler
- May 12, 2017: New photo from Douglas Butler
- May 6, 2017: New photos from Douglas Butler
- April 26, 2017: New video from Douglas Butler
- March 10, 2017: New photos from Douglas Butler
- February 22, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- February 20, 2016: Updated by Luke: Added link to gore shot
- January 26, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- November 21, 2015: New photos from Steve Conro
- August 6, 2015: New photo from Luke
- August 6, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- December 17, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- October 30, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- September 4, 2014: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- August 1, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- July 14, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 16, 2013: New photos from Douglas Butler
- August 15, 2013: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- August 14, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "Baltimore & Ohio Railroad", "Railroad"
- August 14, 2013: Added by Douglas Butler
Related Bridges
- BO - Calumet River Bridge (Old) (Predecessor)
Sources
- Douglas Butler
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Luke
- Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Flickr - Image
- Industrial History: B&O Bridge over Calumet River - Info
- How to Build Model... - Info
Comments
This what happen in May of 1988 a collision with a huge ship.
This is the Blues Brothers and their Quote.
Yep that's correct it was a McDonald's drive thru prank
Is that why he only makes himself appear on McDonalds food nowadays?
........back to that same old place, sweet home Chicago.......
God used the ship to hit this rail bascule bridge for the fact the blues brother's had a saying quote they're never get caught they're on the mission from God and God is not mocked Galatians 6:7, now I see why the Pontokratis ship had struck it in May of 1988 because of that quote!
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