DCAX = Delray Connecting Railroad
A 1940 Detroit topo map shows that Detroit, Toledo & Ironton also served Zug Island.
This railroad bridge shares the right-of-way with vehicles because that is normally the only way they can get on the island. Back when US Steel on Zug Island was running full bore, this bridge must have got crowded during shift changes. (There was a second bridge, #210, just east of this one. But it was just for railroad traffic. [Historic Bridges presentation, p18 & p26]) The Hot Metal Escape Bridge [Historic Bridges presentation, p8-11] was built in 1976.
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| Photo from Bikes, Books & a Little Music via BridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA) |
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| Street View, Jul 2009 |
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| Jan 21, 2022: Craig Hensley Photography posted Zug Island The Y194 job shoving their way across the the bridge onto Zug Island. This shot is pretty neat, because you can also see the piers for the new Gordie Howe International bridge being built in the background. CSX Y194 - DJI Mavic Air2s - 1/17/22 - Detroit, Michigan Peter Dudley: A similar bascule bridge once paralleled the still-existing bridge, just upstream (foreground). It served the soda ash plant (left). Kevin Nelson: Peter Dudley It was known as Bridge 210. The existing one is Bridge 141. Jim Ibershoff: glad to see Delray connecting is still working. Henry Goodbread: What makes the water tinged so blue? Craig Hensley: Henry Goodbread good question! I think that the lack of ship traffic in the river and the layer of ice that is forming creates a blue-green tinge. The rouge is normally a middle color because shipping traffic moves the sediment around on the floor of the river. |
Craig Hensley Photography posted three photos with the comment:
A few more from last Monday’s Boat-line run in the sunshine. I really enjoy bridge shots and Detroit has some really neat old school bridge designs that span the Rouge River in a couple of spots. So whenever I get a chance to shoot something on one of them I’m pretty ecstatic. CSX GP38-2 #2542 shoving Y144 across 1 of 2 bascule style bridges onto Zug Island.CSX Y144 - Zug Island, Detroit, MI - Jan 2022View this image and more of my work here:
Charles Fannin: This bridge doesn't have a traditional type pivot pin, it walks as it raises or lowers. Do you know of others? Effect caused by rolling on outer radius of bottom edge. It has slots or pins to keep aligned as it rolls on the flat part of structure, effectively "walking".
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on Charles' comment It is called a Scherzer bridge because he patented that design. Chicago used to have a lot of them at the beginning of the 20th Century. Joliet still has theirs. From what I have observed, they are more common for railroads. https://bridgehunter.com/category/builder/scherzer-rolling-lift-bridge-co/ |
There used to be a lot more industry north of the island as recently as 1980.
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| 1980 Detroit Quad @ 24,000 |
HistoricBridges explains that there used to be a second bridge here, #210. And that this control house operated both bridges. It still controls the current bridge.
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| Street View, Jul 2009 |
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