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Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges;
Satellite)
I think of Chicago and Cleveland as having a lot of movable bridges. Given that the Milwaukee River was navigable in the downtown area, it should probably be added to the "who had and has the most movable bridges?" list.
The main span is 141'.
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Bridges Now and Then posted
The Kilbourn Avenue Bascule Bridge, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1929. (Granger) |
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J.R. Manning Sep 2014 Photo via BridgeHunter
This is one of a sequence of photos of it opening and closing including some interior shots of the controls. |
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| Digitally Zoomed to show the rack and pinion at the base of each truss. |
It makes sense that cruise ships would want to dock in the downtown area rather than the industrial area around Jones Island. I don't think the building with a tower has been preserved. I could not find that building in a satellite image. So I don't know if this ship would have passed under this bridge or not.
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Paul Rabenhorst posted
Cruise ship, Milwaukee, 1913.
Steve Vanden Bosch: The United States I will post some Detroit Publishing photos of her later |
Steve Vanden Bosch
posted five photos with the comment: "The United States built by Manitowoc Shipbuilding in 1909 ended as a Package Freighter with the name Batiscan with Canada Steamship Line was scrapped in 1944. Photos are from the Detroit Publishing Collection Library of Congress."
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