Aban/(Big4+Erie) and 1940 Carter Road Bridges in Cleveland, OH (OX Tower)

Railroad: (no Bridge Hunter?; Satellite, west lift bridge)

1940 Vehicle: (Bridge Hunter; HAER; Satellite, east lift bridge) This bridge replaced a swing bridge.

Interlocking Tower: (3D Satellite)

The road bridge is down and the railroad bridge is up in this photo.

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1. VIEW OF EAST SIDE OF BRIDGE - Carter Road Lift Bridge, Spanning Cuyahoga River at Carter Road, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

It appears the lift bridge replaced a rolling bridge. The road bridge will be built in another decade.

Jonathan Konopka posted
Photo quality isn't great, but this is looking north at the old Big Four drawbridge along the Clark Branch in Cleveland (not the current one) in 1930. Photo credit belongs to Henry Wilhelm.
Dennis DeBruler: The tower on the B&O depot still has its peaked roof. Is that the trainshed of the B&O depot stretching between the bridge and the right edge of the photo?
Jonathan Konopka: Dennis DeBruler Looks like it.

Yep, this confirms it.

Jonathan Konopka posted
1949 - Looking east along the Cuyahoga River near Downtown. The USS Ossipee is seen tied to the bank of the river, and the Carter Road Bridge and NYC Railroad Bridge are also seen ahead. Photo is courtesy of the Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery.
Jonathan Konopka shared
Cleveland in 1949, with the bascule NYC/Big Four bridge still standing.

 

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The railroad bridge is the narrow one, and the road bridge is the wide one.

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2. VIEW LOOKING SOUTHEAST SHOWING LIFT-TOWERS AND APPROACH ROAD

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3. VIEW OF NORTHWEST LIFT-TOWER AND APPROACH ROAD

Douglas Butler posted
Big 4 NYC Railroad Lift Bridge with Carter Road Lift Bridge in Cleveland, OH.

C Hanchey, Jul 2012, via BridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

 

Geoffrey Moreland posted
A rare shot of OX tower and the New York Central lift bridge Cleveland, 1964. Check out my group dedicated to Movable Bridges
Thomas Wentzel shared
Geoffrey Moreland posted

Thomas Ditty posted
Truss & Rivets: Glad to see OX still standing

 

Jacqueline Crandall Fafrack posted
“OX (Oxbow)” / Flats tower in Cleveland on the former NYC Clark Branch over the Cuyahoga River-1981.

Geoffrey Moreland shared a post by Jacob Kniola of four photos and the comment: "Inside OX Tower in Cleveland back in 2017. Was able to get some shots due to some fallen boards."

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[A motor-generator set. Do the relays and/or track circuits need DC power?]

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Howie Castellucio: Wow that was a hot fire!!
[Note the steel beam near the upper-left corner that has snapped!]

David Daruszka commented on Geoffrey's share

Zachary Schroll posted two photos with the comment: "A blustery night and slow go at work offered a few minutes to shoot the Ex NYC Interlocking tower as well as Ex NYC Railroad Bridge no. 2 along the Banks of the Cuyahoga. Cleveland sure is full of Rich Railroad History!"

Geoffrey Moreland shared

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Geoffrey Morland shared his post of three photos and the comment: "A rare shot of the “Big Four” vertical lift in Cleveland, Ohio in the down position. Photo taken March 1971. At one time this bridge carried the New York Central. This bridge was built in the 50s to replace a Scherzer type rolling lift, and has been abandoned in the up position since the 80’s. This bridge sits next to the Carter Road Vertical Lift and is still intact today. On the East Bank sat a large B&O freight house, with the operators tower still intact. A small approach span can be seen today on the West Bank.   Photo credit Lamont Downs/Jeff Leslie/C Hanchey"

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Jim Arc: Tracks in the foreground were used by the NYC to get into and out of the Terminal, from Linndale. Today they are only used by RTA, to go out to Hopkins airport.
Jim Arc: Old B&O passenger station on the left. Control tower for the RR bridge is on the far right, towards the back.

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[The brick of the control tower is peaking through the tree on the left.]

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Jim Arc: The old B&O passenger station is in the background.

I'm surprised that Bridge Hunter doesn't have an entry for the railroad bridge since it is still standing. Based on some maps, the bridge carried Erie trains to a station just north of the river and Big Four trains to a connection with the NYC route along the lakefront.

This photo shows that the railroad lift bridge replaced a rolling bridge.

Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection via BridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

 

10:20 video @ 3:16, Sep 24, 2013
[On the right, are they building a replacement span for the Carter Bridge?]

Michael Businger posted

 

Brian Shell posted
Douglas Butler shared
Credit to Brian Shell. Big4 NYC Railroad Lift Bridge detail located in Cleveland, OH.

Thomas Ditty posted
Cleveland Ohio, Amtrak E-8 dated January 1979. From my personal slide collection. Photo credit James Marcus.

Dennis DeBruler commented on Thomas' post
The abandoned Big Four and Erie Bridge on the left and the Carter Road Bridge on the right. In the left background is the B&O #463 Bridge.
https://goo.gl/maps/jTBCuMijE2xEQvy88

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