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Joliet Railroad Lift Bridge

Will County, Illinois
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Joliet Railroad Lift Bridge

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Overview
Through truss lift bridge over Des Plaines River on CSX
Location
Joliet, Will County, Illinois
Status
Open to rail traffic
History
Built 1932 by the American Bridge Company
Builders
- American Bridge Co. of New York
- Ketler & Elliot Co.
Design
Subdivided Warren through truss lift bridge with two Baltimore through truss approach spans
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 302 ft.
Total length: 552 ft.
Deck width: 32 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.52117, -88.08756   (decimal degrees)
41°31'16" N, 88°05'15" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/409257/4597185 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Joliet
Inventory number
BH 41870 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

American Bridge Co. (333)
Baltimore through truss (128)
Baltimore truss (140)
Built 1932 (695)
Built during 1930s (8,170)
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (138)
Have street view (8,178)
Illinois (2,234)
Joliet, Illinois (39)
Ketler & Elliot Co. (8)
Movable (1,242)
 Open (26,685)
Owned by railroad (2,896)
Railroad (1,671)
Span length 250-500 feet (805)
Through truss (8,514)
Total length 500-1000 feet (1,625)
Truss (22,513)
Vertical lift (256)
Warren through truss (785)
Warren truss (3,554)
Will County, Illinois (92)

Update Log 

  • July 30, 2011: New photos from C Hanchey
  • February 5, 2011: Updated by J.P.: added gps
  • March 26, 2009: New photo from Harvey Henkelmann
  • March 25, 2009: Added by Kim Harvey

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Joliet Railroad Lift Bridge
Posted November 11, 2009, by Gary S (jaidite [at] aol [dot] com)

Just did a quick double check on Google maps and through the street view feature was able to verify that this is the south lift bridge in Joliet and am also happy to say it's still in use.

That is the old Chicago Rock Island & Pacific bridge and although the Rock Island went belly up in 1980 the bridge is still in use by CSX that owns the line to Lasalle Il (IIRC) and is also used by Iowa Interstate.

It has been reduced from double track to single track but so has most of the former Rock Island west of Joliet.