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Santa Fe Railroad S&S Canal Bridge

Cook County, Illinois
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Photos 

South Portal, Looking Northwest

Photo taken for the Historic American Engineering Record

View photos at Library of Congress

Map 

Description 

This bridge is one of seven surviving swing bridges built in 1899 across the Sanitary and Ship Canal.

-- Historic American Engineering Record

Facts 

Overview
Two track Pratt through truss bridge over Sanitary & Ship Canal on BNSF (former Santa Fe) Railroad
Location
Forest View, Cook County, Illinois
Status
Open to traffic
History
Built 1898
Builders
- Carnegie Steel Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (superstructure)
- Keystone Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Substructure)
Design
Pratt through truss
Dimensions
Total length: 380.0 ft.
Also called
BNSF RR S&S Canal Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.80523, -87.78785   (decimal degrees)
41°48'19" N, 87°47'16" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/434553/4628451 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Berwyn
Inventory number
BH 50839 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,851)
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (89)
Built 1898 (160)
Built during 1890s (1,560)
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (479)
Carnegie Steel Co. (26)
Cook County, Illinois (168)
Forest View, Illinois (1)
HAER documented (784)
Illinois (2,501)
Keystone Bridge Co. (22)
Movable (1,360)
 Navigable waterway (1,453)
Open (28,452)
Owned by railroad (4,120)
Pin-connected (1,568)
Pratt through truss (3,184)
Pratt truss (5,687)
Railroad (4,223)
Swing (537)
Through truss (9,254)
Total length 250-500 feet (3,382)
Truss (23,615)

Update Log 

  • September 29, 2012: New photos from Steve Conro
  • April 6, 2012: Updated by Luke Harden: Added category "Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway"
  • March 21, 2012: Updated by Steve Conro: Pics, info, name
  • January 6, 2012: Updated by J.P.: Added categories "Navigable waterway", "Pin-connected", "HAER documented", "Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway", "Santa Fe Railroad"

Sources 

  • J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
  • HAER IL-39 - Santa Fe Railroad, Sanitary & Ship Canal Bridge, Spanning Sanitary & Ship Canal east of Harlem Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
  • Steve Conro - sconro [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth

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