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CM - Bay City Swing Bridge
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Bay City Railroad Swing Bridge
Michigan
Photo taken by Douglas Butler in April 2013
BH Photo #285957
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
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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)
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
Sources
- Frank Hicks
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Douglas Butler
- Luke
- Mike Kerkau - mjkerkau [at] gmail [dot] com
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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.