I-90 is in the background.
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| Jann Mayer, Sep 2019 via BridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) Backing downstream under the bridge |
The Hope Memorial Bridge is in the background.
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| Mark Hinsdale posted
"Patience is a Virtue (& I'm Not Very Virtuous)..."
After a seemingly endless wait in my perch overlooking the City of Cleveland, I was finally rewarded with this Norfolk Southern westbound train of auto parts, crossing the Cuyahoga River vertical lift bridge on the former Nickel Plate Road main line. September, 2000 photo by Mark Hinsdale
Jerry W. Jordak You still can do this shot, and it's more open to the right now as the old cold storage building that was behind the trees was removed when the new Innerbelt bridge was built. This is what it looked like a couple months ago. https://www.flickr.com/photos/jwjordak/49543901338/ Mark Hinsdale Wow! That is much better! Very nice, and a better subject as well, Jerry! Jerry W. Jordak I dunno....those NS high-hoods you got were pretty choice too. [In the background is a nice view of the Hope Memorial Bridge.] Mark Hinsdale shared |
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| MP Rail Photography posted NS intermodal 28B crosses the former Nickel Plate lift bridge over the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland. The bridge was built in 1957 and is a vertical lift bridge constructed by Koch Steel Erecting Company and the Mount Vernon Bridge Company. The bridge sits next to the George V. Voinovich Bridges, which were completed in 2013 and replaced the Innerbelt Bridge which was built in 1959. August 25, 2024 Cleveland, Ohio Power: NS 1190 - SD70ACe NS 8107 - ES44AC MP Rail Photography shared |
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| Ken Casper posted Beautiful bridge even in the dark |
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| MP Rail Photography posted As the snow comes down in Cleveland, BNSF 7322 leads NS 316 eastbound on the old Nickel Plate mainline, seen here crossing the Cuyahoga River. This bridge was built in 1957 by the Koch Steel Erecting Company and Mount Vernon Bridge Company. November 13, 2022 Cleveland, Ohio Power: BNSF 7322 - ES44DC Geoffrey Moreland shared |
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| Erik Drost Flickr via BridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) |
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| Jann Mayer, Sep 2019 via BridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) Eastern approach under the I-90 bridge [Historic Bridges notes that even though the lift bridge was built in 1957, at least part of the elevated approaches were built in 1917.] |
Another railroad movable span is the structure on the high level Norfolk and Western Viaduct at University Avenue. This structure was built for the original Nickel Plate Road and was designed by the Chief Engineer, E.E. Hart. A double-track viaduct, the total length is 3010 feet. The height above the River is 70 feet. At one time it was the longest viaduct in the United States. The river span at present is a vertical lift, which was erected in 1960 to replace the Scherzer Rolling Lift. The first river span here was a swing bridge with a pier in the center of the channel. [ClevelandMemory]
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| American-Rails.com posted Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 #1218 (A) leads a special excursion across the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio on the former Nickel Plate Road on August 18, 1990. Arnold Morscher photo. |
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| Ken Casper posted Norfolk Southern intermodel crossing the lift bridge across the Cuyahoga River, Cleveland Ohio |
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| Jonathan Konopka posted March 1970 - Lots of stuff going on here. This photo is mainly looking east. The big bridge all the way at the back is the old Innerbelt bridge, and the one just in front of it is the NKP railroad bridge that crosses the Cuyahoga River. The road going up the hill on the right is University Road, and the road at the bottom of the photo is Scranton Road. The Towpath now runs through most of the area on the left side of the photo. Photo credit belongs to A.H. Morscher. Thomas Wentzel shared |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Thomas' share And the elevated tracks along the river was the Erie. I can't determine who owned the grade level track next to the river. They not only removed Erie's tracks, they took out the embankment. |
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| Jonathan Konopka posted The W&LE (later N&W) lift bridge over the Cuyahoga River in the industrial valley of Cleveland. Built in 1956, it carried the W&LE main line over the river and it ultimately ended somewhere up by the old Erie Literary Street Yard, where they interchanged. The bridge is still around today but is not used. Photo taken in August 1970 by Lamont Downs. Lyle Merdler: That line ran south from the bridge and crossed Broadway near Union Ave. Back in the 70's when it was active, I was stopped at a light and saw an engine and some cars emerge from behind a building at that intersection. It looked like there was maybe 12" of clearance on either side of the ROW! I am sure the tracks were there long before these buildings were and whoever built them they played it tight! The Morgana Run Trail is now in place of the tracks. This was a crazy busy line at one time, feeding scrap to the mills. |
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| Michael Businger posted |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Michael's post https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4865213,-81.6934436,118a,35y,120.3h,42.34t/data=!3m1!1e3 https://bridgehunter.com/oh/cuyahoga/nkp---cuyahoga-river/ |
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| MP Rail Photography posted As the snow comes down in Cleveland, BNSF 7322 leads NS 316 eastbound on the old Nickel Plate mainline, seen here crossing the Cuyahoga River. This bridge was built in 1957 by the Koch Steel Erecting Company and Mount Vernon Bridge Company. November 13, 2022 Cleveland, Ohio Power: BNSF 7322 - ES44DC Roger Riblett shared |
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| Douglas Butler posted NKP Railroad Lift Bridge located in Cleveland, OH. |
(new window) At 4:12, I was trying to figure out what the site-seeing boat was doing. Then I realized that it had turned around so that the customers could get a better view of the train on the bridge while they waited. The bridge is impressively low because even speedboats had to wait for it. I think the "white dot" on the bow means bow thruster. I would have thought they would have painted over that when they converted the hull from a freighter to a barge. After the barge at 8:28, there is a fireboat playing fountain on the river.
20:44 YouTube video of the Sam Laud waiting for a train and then it goes past the NKP bridge. I noticed that the freighter is marked with a stern thruster as well as a bow thruster. I didn't know that some freighters have stern thrusters. I had assumed the rudder was good enough. At 14:45, you can see another freighter at a dock in the background.
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