Thursday, December 16, 2021

1905 CN/FVW/GBW/C&NW Bridge over Fox River in Green Bay, WI

(Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges, Satellite)

FVW is the Fox Valley & Western, and GBW is the Green Bay & Western.

The satellite image shows that this swing span is normally open. Since this downstream bridge would get a lot less freighter traffic than the upstream Wisconsin Central Bridge, I'm surprised that this span is normally open. At first, I thought that meant that there were fewer trains than boats servicing the Georgia-Pacific/Fort Howard Paper Co. Then I remembered that the waterways have priority over the railroads. It would be cheaper for CN to use the conductors of the trains to operate the bridge than to staff it with a bridge tender.

Sam Carlson posted
Crossing the Fox River Drawbridge in Green Bay, WI in August, 1986. What was once paradise - today, there is virtually no reason to go to Green Bay.

1908 Postcard via BridgeHunter

Pierre Leonard posted
CNW Green Bay

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