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International Railway Bridge

Erie County, New York

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Photo taken by Adam Moss

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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Description 

Consists of 7 truss spans and 1 swing span over Niagara River plus a swing span over the Black Rock Canal (aka Harbour Draw).

Facts 

Overview
Through truss swing bridges over Niagara River on Railroad (CN)
Location
Buffalo, 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
Dimensions
Total length: 3,651.0 ft. (0.7 mi.)
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)

Categories 

Buffalo, New York (68)
Built 1901 (548)
Built during 1900s (7,362)
Canada, New York (2)
Canadian National Railway (524)
Detroit Bridge & Iron Works (50)
Erie County, New York (212)
Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada (1)
Have street view (27,200)
International Border Crossing (65)
Joseph Hobson (2)
Movable (3,020)
 Navigable waterway (2,164)
New York (4,517)
Niagara River (13)
Open (40,011)
Owned by railroad (12,659)
Pin-connected (3,963)
Railroad (15,777)
Swing (1,485)
Through truss (15,350)
Total length over 2500 feet (920)
Truss (33,245)

Update Log 

  • April 22, 2021: New photos from Geoff Hubbs
  • January 24, 2021: New photos from Josh Schmid
  • 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
  • Josh Schmid
  • Geoff Hubbs
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Comments 

International Railway Bridge
Posted February 7, 2017, by Luke

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/

International Railway Bridge
Posted February 7, 2017, by Daniel Whitcomb (dan [at] buffalothecity [dot] com)

Actually it was open in 1873

https://www.buffalorising.com/2017/02/142-years-old-and-stil...