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CTT - South Branch Chicago River Lift Bridge
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GCS - South Branch Chicago River Bridge
Bridge open for ship traffic
Photo taken by Douglas Butler in April 2013
License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
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BH Photo #285165
Description
This is the only double leaf railroad rolling lift bridge type in Chicago, a double leaf single track Scherzer type is in India. However a single track double leaf Strauss type of 336 foot is still in heavy use between United States and Canada in Sault Ste Marie.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Warren double leaf rolling lift through truss bascule bridge over South Branch Chicago River on Grand Central Station RR
- Location
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built 1899
- Builders
- - Pennsylvania Steel Co. of Steelton, Pennsylvania
- Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroads
- - Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad (CTT)
- Grand Central Station Railroad (GCS)
- Design
- Warren double leaf rolling lift through truss bascule
- Dimensions
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Span length: 278.0 ft.
Total length: 278.0 ft.
- Also called
- Grand Central Station Railroad Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.87214, -87.63588 (decimal degrees)
41°52'20" N, 87°38'09" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/447232/4635775 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Englewood
- Inventory number
- BH 61312 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 23, 2016: Updated by Luke: Added builder + corrected build date; Added imagery
- June 11, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler