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FIR - Industrial Flats Lift Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by C Hanchey
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
BH Photo #278295
Video
Industrial flats rail bridge Bridge replaced in the 1950's older Scherzer type bridge built in 1906. Douglas Butler |
Description
It was selected as the 1953 Class IV "Most Beautiful Steel Bridge" by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC).Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Cuyahoga River on Flats Industrial Railroad
- Location
- Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
- Status
- Open to traffic but soldom used
- History
- Built 1953
- Builders
- - Howard, Needles, Tammen & Bergendoff Corporation of Kansas City, Kansas
- Mt. Vernon Bridge Co. of Mt. Vernon, Ohio
- Railroads
- - Flats Industrial Railroad (FIR)
- New York Central Railroad (NYC)
- Design
- Through truss
- Also called
- Cuyahoga River Bridge No.8
FIR - Ox Bow Bend Lift Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.49215, -81.69978 (decimal degrees)
41°29'32" N, 81°41'59" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/441587/4593629 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cleveland South
- Inventory number
- BH 60159 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 29, 2017: New photos from Douglas Butler
- January 5, 2016: New video from Douglas Butler
- January 4, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- November 27, 2015: New photos from Douglas Butler
- October 21, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- June 15, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- March 10, 2014: New photos from Douglas Butler
- March 7, 2014: Added by Luke Harden
Related Bridges
- Big Four - Cuyahoga River Bridge (Predecessor)
Sources
- Luke
- Douglas Butler
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
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Better known as the Industrial Flats railroad Bridge,Cleveland is my home town with lift bridges of 5 vehical and 5 train bridges equals 10 vertical lift bridges