Roosevelt Road (12th Street) Bridge and B&OCT Freight House

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James Clary posted
Roosevelt Street Bridge - Chicago
Dennis DeBruler The upright bridge behind it is the B&OCT, now abandoned. The span that is still down is the St. Charles Air Line, which many condo owners wish was abandoned.

Scott Griffith posted
[The bridge in the background is Roosevelt Road. I moved the information about the B&OCT freight house to here.]

DavidnMyrtle Bishop posted
Heading into downtown Chicago a few years back.

John B Copleston posted
12th Street Viaduct

MWRD posted
 view of work on the east abutment for a new bridge at 12th Street on the South Branch of the Chicago River on April 25, 1919.

MWRD posted
 A view to the west showing work on the abutment of the Roosevelt Road bridge over the South Branch of the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 1919.

 

It also shows the roofwalks and high handbrakes on boxcars on tracks that are long gone.

MWRD posted
The South Branch of the Chicago River at the 12th Street Bridge on July 29, 1920, viewed looking southwest from just north of 12th Street (now Roosevelt Rd) on the east side of the river.
Dennis DeBruler: It also shows the roofwalks and high handbrakes on boxcars on tracks that are long gone.
MWRD posted
MWRD posted

 

In the foreground is the B&OCT swing bridge, but if you look at the left background in front of the grain elevator, you can see the swing span of the 12th Street Bridge. In the right background would be the truss for the viaduct over Pennsylvania and CB&Q railroad yards south of Union Station.

Public Domain, eBook, p 609

MWRD posted
The South Branch of the Chicago River on July 26, 1910, looking north towards an area near 12th Street (now Roosevelt Road), taken to document the dock conditions on the west side of the river.

Noach Hoffman posted
"Chicago Grain Elevator" photographer unknown. 1890 Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Dennis DeBruler: I think we are looking at Rock Island A and B and the 12th Street Bridge.

ChicagoLoopBridges updated
The Roosevelt Rd bridge is featured on the cover this month. It is one of the four bridges with anniversaries this month. This photo was taken in April 2015. The crane was being moved to the construction site of 150 North Riverside just south of the Lake St bridge.
Dennis DeBruler: I had assumed that they brought the cranes in for this building and 110 N Wacker from the Lake. Bringing a crane up from Roosevelt means the crane would have had to go under the now unmovable bridges on the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal. Or did they "walk" the crane onto a barge in a marina along the South Branch? And it looks like they are using a towboat for bow steering.
ChicagoLoopBridges: As l recall, the crane came from a yard in the vicinity of S Ashland, so all bridges on the route were still movable. The crane was used on the building built between Lake & Randolph on the west side of the south branch.