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International Railway Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by Adam Moss
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)
BH Photo #333973
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss swing bridge over Niagara River on Railroad (CN)
- Location
- Fort Erie, Canada, Erie County, New York
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1901
- Builders
- - Detroit Bridge & Iron Works of Detroit, Michigan
- Joseph Hobson
- Railroad
- - Canadian National Railway (CN)
- Design
- Through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.92953, -78.90990 (decimal degrees)
42°55'46" N, 78°54'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/670557/4755108 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Buffalo NW
- Inventory number
- BH 59246 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 24, 2018: New photo from Dave King
- December 22, 2017: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- July 8, 2016: New photos from Royce and Bobette Haley
- August 2, 2015: New photo from Luke
- January 24, 2014: New photos from Douglas Butler
- January 18, 2014: Updated by CANALLER: Added Info & Photo.
- January 18, 2014: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Douglas Butler
- Luke
- Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
Comments
International Railway Bridge
Actually it was open in 1873
https://www.buffalorising.com/2017/02/142-years-old-and-stil...
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The original bridge was built in 1873, this bridge is a 1901 replacement that reused that bridge's substructure.
:http://historicbridges.org/bridges/browser/?bridgebrowser=ontario/internationalrailway/