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| John Marvig posted Originally located on the double track Santa Fe main line, this bridge was constructed in 1888 to cross the I&M canal near downtown Chicago, east of Damen Avenue. The canal was filled in the early 1930s, and the unique Whipple Through Truss was moved to Shopton (Ft. Madison, Iowa) to serve as an overpass over the rail yards in 1934. Today, it remains virtually unchanged since being installed in Iowa. An additional girder span on the north end came from railroad origins at an unknown location. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on John's post This 1915 map shows that the IC and Santa Fe crossed the I&M Canal a little west of Robey Street, which was renamed to Damen Street. |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on John's post I added a red line to this satellite image to show where I think the bridge was in Chicago. https://www.google.com/.../@41.8427254,-87.../data=!3m1!1e3 |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on John's post This 1938 aerial photo shows what IC and Santa Fe built after they filled in the canal. On the right where there are tracks in a big concrete apron was the Chicago Produce Terminal. https://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/.../chicago... |
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| Jennifer Woodman posted The 35th Street Bridge in Fort Madison, Iowa, is a Whipple truss bridge over the BNSF rail yard. The truss itself dates to 1888, originally built to span the Illinois & Michigan Canal in Chicago, before getting relocated and re-erected here in 1934. [There are some comments talking about trucks hauling gas and diesel fuel out of a Sinclair terminal.] Ian Nicholas Eid: And now it’s only used for senior photos and people to smoke weed at 😭😭 |
The Sinclair terminal is basically why the bridge existed. Some of the tanks were gone by Oct 2004. And all of the tanks were gone by Aug 2005.
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| Google Earth, Apr 1998 |
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