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B&OCT - Indiana Harbor Canal Bridge
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BOCT - Indiana Harbor Canal Bridges
Strauss rail bridge between 2 Scherzer bascule lift bridges however a couple feet from the Rall types
Photo taken by Douglas Butler in September 2013
License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
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BH Photo #283279
Description
This Strauss Overhead Counterweight Trunnion bascule bridge between 2 Scherzer type bascule bridges at one time replaced a Rall type built in the 1900's. Today this bridge is no longer in use however kept in the raised position abandoned.
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned deck plate girder bridge over Indiana Harbor Canal on Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal (Whitning)
- Location
- East Chicago, Lake County, Indiana
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- History
- Built 1914
- Builders
- - American Bridge Co. of New York
- Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Railroad
- - Baltimore & Ohio Chicago Terminal Railroad (BOCT)
- Design
- Deck plate girder bascule
- Dimensions
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Total length: 90.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.65998, -87.45216 (decimal degrees)
41°39'36" N, 87°27'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/462354/4612124 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Whiting
- Inventory number
- BH 60900 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 14, 2021: New photo from Douglas Butler
- November 10, 2019: New photo from Douglas Butler
- November 5, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- September 17, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- October 19, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 22, 2016: New photos from Douglas Butler
- January 26, 2016: New photo from Douglas Butler
- December 6, 2015: New video from Douglas Butler
- November 30, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 18, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- March 20, 2015: New photo from Douglas Butler
- May 8, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler
Do any of you know the update about this Strauss rail bridge is it removed or remain abandoned in the raised position?