1908 CCS: (Bridge Hunter)
The City of Chicago is doing a better job of painting their bridge than the railroad is.
Both Bridge Hunter and Historic Bridges call the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend Railroad (CSS) bridge the "130th Street Railroad Bridge."
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| Rod Sellers posted From Bridge Dedication Booklet - 4 lane $1 million located on 130th Street Former bridge (seen above) at location was a floating swing bridge built in 1930 with a 20 foot roadway and a channel width of 70 feet. The average opening duration was 9 minutes. In 1944 it was moved 39 feet downstream and raised 11 feet onto fixed supports temporarily while a new bridge was constructed. The temporary bridge had a 17 foot clearance an improvement from the 7.5 foot clearance of the first bridge. Construction of the new bridge was delayed by wartime needs and began in late 1945. The new bridge (opened in 1949) provided 28 feet of vertical clearance and 219 feet horizontal clearance. Attached photo is bridge plaque. [When this opened in 1949, it was part of an Alt 30 (Lincoln Highway) route. (Note in the sidebar on the right there are three more images related to this bridge.)] |
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| encyclopedia.chicagohistory,org |
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| Rod Sellers posted Where am I? |
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| Rod commented on his post Answer: South Shore Railroad bridge at 130th Street and the Calumet River. Originally a swing bridge built in 1908, it was converted in 1952 to a fixed bridge and raised 6 feet. In 1965 a new fixed bridge was moved into place on 2 barges. It was 300 feet long with a 25 foot vertical clearance. Attached photo shows South Shore Railroad car crossing bridge. Mitch Markovitz: This bridge was raised 6 feet and de-activated in 1953. It was replaced outright in 1967 with a through truss bridge. Before deactivation, and until recent times there existed a company owned phone along the river at Kedzie. This was used by ships to advise the bridge tender of their approach and for instructions (Wait or OK) to pass through. |
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| IRM Strahorn Library posted Photo used in Middleton, South Shore The Last Interurban, page 67. Middleton's caption reads, "Headed by coach trailer No. 201, a two-car Chicago express thunders across the Calumet River bridge near Ford City in the summer of 1938." Photo source: 1938, Ohio Brass Company From Southeast Chicago Historical Society Facebook Page "Originally a swing bridge built in 1908, it was converted in 1952 to a fixed bridge and raised 6 feet. In 1965 a new fixed bridge was moved into place on 2 barges. It was 300 feet long with a 25-foot vertical clearance." Eugene Van Dusen Photo Collection, Photo no BW-009 Illinois Railway Museum Strahorn Library. The Strahorn Library is at 118 E. Washington Street in Marengo, Illinois. It is normally open from 10AM to 2:30PM on Wednesdays and visitors are welcome. For those unable to visit, we can provide access to our collections via telephone (815-568-1060), e-mail (strahorn@irm.org), or online catalog (librarycat.org/lib/IRMStrahornLibrary). [I was confused by the "Ford City" reference. That is a neighborhood in Chicago where airplane engines used to be built. And then I remembered that the Ford assembly plant is sometimes referred to as Ford City.] |
Photos of the old and new RR bridge are here.
The City of Chicago is doing a better job of painting their bridge than the railroad is.
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This bridge has an unusual truss configuration which is essentially a subdivided polygonal Warren through truss. In other words, it is a polygonal Warren truss bridge which has been broken into smaller and more numerous panels in the way a Pennsylvania truss subdivides a Parker truss. This is the only known example of this unusual design in Chicago. [Historic Bridges]
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| Gerard Dupczak posted This day in the Hegewisch News (9/17/1965). Courtesy of the Hegewisch News Archive Project. |
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They appear in the background of this photo taken from the O'Brien Lock.
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| B Thamus, Oct 2019 |
In Sept 2020, I got hit with a Double Doomsday. Both Facebook and Google changed their software. I said "changed" instead of "updated" because the new software is not better. In fact, Google's Blogger software is far worse except for a search function that works. Specifically, it has three bugs concerning photos and their captions. So I'm no longer copying photos and interesting comments from Facebook. I'm just saving the link. I hope you can see posts in Private Groups.
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