Rating:
57637
{52}%
4 votes
B&OCT - South Branch Chicago River Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by Douglas Butler
License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
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BH Photo #263650
Description
This Heel Trunnion bascule bridge is a Strauss type thats left in the open position.
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned warren through truss bridge over South Branch Chicago River on Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad
- Location
- Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- History
- Built 1930; rail line abandoned in 1991
- Builders
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroads
- - Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad (BOCT)
- Baltimore & Ohio Railroad (BO)
- CSX Railroad (CSX)
- Design
- Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 186.0 ft.
- Also called
- BOCT - South Branch Chicago River Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.86088, -87.63477 (decimal degrees)
41°51'39" N, 87°38'05" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/447315/4634524 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Englewood
- Inventory number
- BH 57637 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 30, 2021: New photos from Douglas Butler
- August 15, 2017: New photo from Douglas Butler
- June 4, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- January 26, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- January 19, 2016: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- December 7, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- November 30, 2015: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
- November 22, 2015: New photos from Royce and Bobette Haley
- October 12, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 6, 2015: Updated by Luke: Merged HAER imagery
- August 5, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- May 28, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 26, 2013: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 16, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Think I found the bridges
- August 16, 2013: Added by Douglas Butler
Sources
- Douglas Butler
- Luke
- HAER IL-67 - Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Chicago Terminal Railroad, South Branch of Chicago River Bridge, Spanning South Branch of Chicago River, Chicago, Cook County, IL
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Royce and Bobette Haley - roycehaley111 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Image 12 is a copyrighted work
https://www.flickr.com/photos/zol87/8565121699/