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Eight Track Bridge (Old)
Description
Four non-movable Warren through trusses. Were intended to be converted into double-leaf bascules, but it was determined to be cheaper to just built new single-leaf bascules.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Warren through truss bridge over Sanitary & Ship Canal on Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad/Chicago Junction Railway/Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad
- Location
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1901; Replqced 1909
- Builders
- - A & P Roberts Co. of Pencoyd, Pennsylvania (Superstructure)
- McArthur Bros Co. of Chicago, Illinois (Substructure)
- Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois (Design)
- Railroads
- - Chicago Junction Railway (CJR)
- Chicago Terminal Transfer Railroad (CTT)
- Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago, & St. Louis Railroad (PCC&StL)
- Design
- Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 150.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.83716, -87.68757 (decimal degrees)
41°50'14" N, 87°41'15" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/442911/4631925 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Englewood
- Inventory number
- BH 69104 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 29, 2016: Updated by Luke: Added builders
- September 8, 2015: Added by Luke