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CM - Bay City Swing Bridge

Bay County, Michigan

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Photo taken by C Hanchey

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

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BH Photo #334104

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Facts 

Overview
Pratt through truss bridge over Saginaw River on Central Michigan Railway
Location
Bay City, Bay County, Michigan
Status
Open to traffic
Builder
- Bethlehem Steel Co. of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (girder span fabricator)
Railroads
- Central Michigan Railway (CM)
- Michigan Central Railroad (MC)
- New York Central Railroad (NYC)
- Penn Central Railroad (PC)
Design
Pratt through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 245.0 ft.
Total length: 660.0 ft.
Deck width: 12.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+43.60556, -83.89008   (decimal degrees)
43°36'20" N, 83°53'24" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/266756/4832124 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Bay City
Inventory number
BH 52118 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Bay City, Michigan (12)
Bay County, Michigan (20)
Bethlehem Steel Co. (154)
Built 1905 (827)
Built during 1900s (7,737)
Central Michigan Railway (3)
Girder (11,346)
Have street view (29,893)
Michigan (1,428)
Michigan Central Railroad (48)
Movable (3,156)
New York Central Railroad (1,024)
Open (41,203)
 Owned by railroad (13,727)
Penn Central Railroad (1,573)
Plate girder (8,875)
Pratt through truss (6,228)
Pratt truss (10,535)
Railroad (16,665)
Riveted (2,644)
Span length 175-250 feet (2,093)
Swing (1,591)
Through girder (4,270)
Through truss (17,850)
Total length 500-1000 feet (3,134)
Truss (36,748)

Update Log 

  • December 12, 2019: Updated by Mike Kerkau: details added
  • September 14, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • August 3, 2015: New photos from Luke
  • October 23, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • June 18, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • April 20, 2012: Added by Frank Hicks

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CM - Bay City Swing Bridge
Posted September 13, 2018, by Mike Kerkau (mjkerkau [at] gmail [dot] com)

I'm not able to see trains actually going across this bridge very often, but yesterday when I was driving over Liberty there was one at the west side approach getting ready to cross.

CM - Bay City Swing Bridge
Posted October 11, 2017, by MARK WELLINGTON (wholesaledirectent [at] gmail [dot] com)

Thought this might be a pic to enjoy of the bridge. Taken 10-09-2017 looking at the bridge going up stream.