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Maple Street Bridge
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| 1, - Onekama, Michigan posted One of the things that are must do when you are in the Manistee area - watch a freighter come into Manistee and thread the needle The journey starts at the Manistee harbor entrance and continues up the Manistee River to the lift bridges at Maple Street and US 31 Great Republic Coming into Manistee - Photo by Chris Franckowiak |
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| 1, - Onekama, Michigan posted We have featured Chris Franckowiak's photos for several years on this page. His photography and his knowledge of the Great Lakes shipping industry is greatly appreciated MANITOWOC coming into Manistee |
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| Brendon Baillod posted, Credit Brendon Baillod Collection Here's a nice Manistee view I picked up a few weeks back. This is a divided back, color-tinted postcard that was mailed in 1908 from Manistee. It is particularly sharp and shows the steam-barge Normandie with a deck load of barreled salt just after passing under the Maple Street Bridge. The lumber in the foreground is very characteristic of Manistee's industry at that time. The 160 ft. [49m] Normandie was built in 1894 at Green Bay for the lumber and bulk freight trades. She is shown here in the livery of the Michigan, Indiana and Illinois Line for whom she would primarily carry salt out of Manistee. In 1915, she was sold to Lake Erie parties and in 1920, she was renamed Marysville. In 1927 she was rebuilt as a self-unloading sand dredge and she was lost in June of 1928 when she burned at the mouth of Belle River at Marine City, Michigan. Brendon Baillod shared |
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| Jess OBrien posted I wish I had caught it by the lighthouse. This was my first time and I had no idea where the better vantage points were at. [Personally, I'm glad he didn't catch it by the lighthouse because I like the bridge photo. The comments on this post contain serveral more photos of the freighter.] |
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| David Potter posted Great Republic Inbound Manistee, MI. 10 16 2022 |
Another freighter that squeezes up the channel. I chose this photo because it confirms that it has a stern thruster was well as a bow thruster.
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| 1 of 7 photos posted by Tony Bidigare ALGOMA BUFFALO pulling into the harbor in Manistee Mi. |
US-31 Memorial Bridge
This is a Scherzer rolling-lift bridge.
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| David Daruszka posted "The Smith Bridge is known as Memorial Bridge and was built in 1933 by the Michigan highway Dept. It is dedicated to the memory of the soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in world War I. It has a 105 ft. span, 47 ft. above the river and is 40 ft. wide It is a modern lift bridge with two 60 ft. leave and four car drive. It is electrically controlled and operated with automatic stops both going up and down." (Information from the reverse side of the postcard.) |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on David's post An earlier bridge at this site. https://bridgehunter.com/mi/manistee/bh73232/ |
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| Bridges Now and Then posted "The construction of Memorial Bridge, Manistee, Michigan, commenced in July 1932 and continued through the autumn of 1933." (Manistee County Historical Museum) |
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| Al Miller posted Late in its career with USS Great Lakes Fleet, the George A. Sloan eases up the Manistee River bound for industry in nearby Filer City, Mich. It was a slow trip, especially passing through the U.S. 31 drawbridge in Manistee and lining up on the railroad swing bridge just ahead. |
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| manisteenews via Bridge Hunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) |
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| Blueyes below posted Talk about good clean living!!! I crossed the bridge here in Manistee, Michigan right before they opened it and was able to get the drone deployed. A great start to the morning! That is the Mark W Barker, the newest freighter on the Great Lakes. 639’ long. A bit of a tight squeeze! Francis C Franklin shared |
I noticed in Bridge Hunter and Historic Bridges that the designer was Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. The architectural ornamentation of this bridge is fancy enough that I did not notice it was a rolling bridge when I first looked at the photos. But that would explain why the piers are so wide. And the following image shows the spans have moved back away from the channel.
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| Donald Harrison Flickr via Historic Bridges, License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) |
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| JANSYVERSION via FollowingThatDream via Bridge Hunter-maple [I believe this was uploaded to the wrong Bridge Hunter post.] |
CSX/PM 1937 East & West Railroad Bridge
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| Street View |
Plate girder swing bridges are rare. Particularly ones that are still operational in 2020. Historic Bridges indicates that this bridge still carries trains and still opens for marine traffic.
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| MichiganRailroads via Bridge Hunter, Charles Showalter collection M&NE 325 pulls a passenger train across the Manistee swing bridge. |
PM Trestle
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| Dave Lotz posted |
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| Dave commented on his post |
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| Dave commented on his post Just the foundations. [Dave posted this in response to the question of its existence.] |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Dave's post 1957 Copemish and 1956 Onekama Quadrangles @ 1:62,500 |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Dave's post I think I found one of the footings. 44°16'14.6"N 86°00'28.1"W |
Preserved Grand Trunk Ferry
While looking at Bridge Hunter, I learned that the town has a preserved Grand Trunk Railroad ferry.
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| Julian and Christian Stadeli, Jul 2018 [This photo has been moved to the SS City of Milwaukee Ferry notes.] |
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