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RT - Cuyahoga River Bascule Bridge
Description
The bascule bridge is next to an abandoned lift bridge of a Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad near ISG former LTV Steel mill on Clark Avenue. Used also by the ISG Cleveland Works Railroad.Facts
- Overview
- Bridge over Cuyahoga River on Cleveland Works Railroad
- Location
- Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
- Status
- Still in heavy use
- History
- Built 1913
- Builders
- - Corrigan, McKinney & Co.
- Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroads
- - ISG Cleveland Works Railway (CWRO)
- River Terminal Railway (RT)
- Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway (WLE)
- Design
- Warren through truss Scherzer Rolling lift bridge
- Dimensions
-
Total length: 148.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.47064, -81.66894 (decimal degrees)
41°28'14" N, 81°40'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/444143/4591221 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cleveland South
- Inventory number
- BH 57539 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 16, 2019: New photo from Douglas Butler
- July 1, 2019: New photo from Douglas Butler
- December 17, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- May 10, 2018: New photos from Douglas Butler
- November 9, 2017: New photos from Douglas Butler
- July 5, 2017: New photos from Douglas Butler
- March 22, 2017: New photo from Douglas Butler
- February 28, 2017: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- February 9, 2017: New photo from Douglas Butler
- January 19, 2017: New photo from Douglas Butler
- May 20, 2016: New photos from Douglas Butler
- January 29, 2016: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- January 26, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- January 22, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- January 4, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- December 29, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- December 6, 2015: New video from Douglas Butler
- December 5, 2015: New photos from Douglas Butler
- November 27, 2015: New photos from Douglas Butler
- November 16, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- September 6, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- August 17, 2015: New photos from Douglas Butler
- August 5, 2015: New photo from Luke
- August 5, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 4, 2015: New photos from Douglas Butler
- December 18, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- November 29, 2014: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- October 29, 2014: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- September 8, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- September 3, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 15, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- June 21, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
- June 14, 2014: New photos from Douglas Butler
- June 9, 2014: New photos from Douglas Butler
- August 29, 2013: New photos from Douglas Butler
- August 12, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added categories "ISG Cleveland Works Railway", "Piedmont & Northern Railway", "Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad", "Railroad", "Cuyahoga River", "Navigable waterway"
- August 12, 2013: Added by Douglas Butler
Sources
- Douglas Butler
- Luke
- Cyer Gray Foundry Bascule Lift Bridge - Imagery
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
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