1929: (Bridge Hunter)
1944: (Bridge Hunter, Historic Bridges, Satellite, Street View)The railroad causeway across Sandusky Bay has four bridges to pass the flow of water. The bridge across the navigation channel has a movable span.
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| Photo taken by Chicago Line Railfan via BridgeHunter-1944, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) |
RED ALERT: this bridge was not at this location. See HERE for the correct location of this bridge.
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| Photo is now described in Lost NYC/(LS&MS/LE&W) Bridge on Shoreline of Sandusky, OH |
The original movable span was a swing bridge.
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| Photo provided by OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons via BridgeHunter-1929 |
This span has been replaced by a rolling bridge span: open, closed. I added the label bridgeGirderSteel because it is rare for a movable span to use girders instead of a truss.
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| MP Rail Photography posted NS 7543 leads a westbound NS manifest across Sandusky Bay on the evening of June 12, 2021. In researching the bridge, I have not been able to find the year or builder/designer but it seems to be built in the the moveable single leaf bascule design common of the Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Company but it is unknown if they were the builders or not. While the bridge was once manned it is now remotely controlled. In the background, Cedar Point can be seen rising above the lake. June 12, 2021 Power: NS 7543 - ES44DC NS 4394 - AC44C6M MP Rail Photography shared Joe Granger: Still goes up and down daily. Dennis DeBruler: Joe Granger Judging by a satellite image, it is normally down. |
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| Craig Hensley Photography posted A loaded coal drag stretches out over Sandusky bay on main 2 providing a wind block for trains to run on main 1 on the Chicago Line. Sandusky, OH - March 2025 Dale Collins: Worked a derailment there, containers blown Into the lake ,cold winter day,back in the Conrail days Jon Weichel: We used to climb up in and explore Medusa in mid 90s the view from the roof is epic. Keith Siverling: So... there really was a Medusa Cement?? I figured it was some random name Walthers came up with. Nathan Worthington: Keith Siverling ... they were quite famous: https://sanduskyregister.com/.../the-concrete-facts-on.../ |
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| Craig Hensley Photography posted NS AC44C6M #4725 leads an eastbound manifest across Sandusky Bay on main 1 while a heavy loaded coal train provides a wind block on main 2. Sandusky, OH - March 2025 Matt Hicks: Conrail in 1997 had a train blown in to the Bay, and so did Norfolk Southern in 2008. Single track between CP 244 and CP 248. Craig Hensley Photography shared |
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| Larry Candilas commented on Keith's comment Back when it was booming. |
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| MP Rail Photography posted NS 28B with two BNSF GEs for power, passes over the Bay Bridge on the NS Chicago Line in Bay View, Ohio. November 25, 2022 Bay View, Ohio Power: BNSF 8066 - ES44C4 BNSF 4697 - C44-9W MP Rail Photography shared |
Darren Reynolds posted four photos with the comment:
Gary Dickinson: NYC/Big Four"DB" Draw. Sandusky Bay , OH.Photos by: David P. Oroszi.... 1981Don't know RR???
Larry Stone: LS&MS, not Big Four. Big Four had a branch to Sandusky (long abandoned) from the southwest but the bridge wasn’t part of it. DB is still active under NS ownership and sees Amtrak’s Lake Shore and Capitol Limiteds.
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| More comments on Darren's post |
Obviously, this was a run through from BNSF to NS.
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| MP Rail Photography posted BNSF 7644 leads NS 206 across the Sandusky Bay in Bay View, Ohio. May 27, 2022 Bay View, Ohio Power: BNSF 7844 - ES44DC BNSF 5226 - C44-9W |
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| MP Rail Photography posted AN eastbound NS Intermodal with BNSF power crosses a frozen Sandusky Bay. December 26, 2022 Bay View, Ohio Power: BNSF 7107 - ES44C4 BNSF 6612 - ES44C4 MP Rail Photography shared |
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| MP Rail Photography posted NS train 60T crosses over Sandusky Bay as it heads eastbound on the Chicago Line with all UP power. April 9, 2023 Bay View, Ohio Power: UP 7171 - AC44CW UP 7926 - AC45CCTE MP Rail Photography shared |
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