SOC = Strauss Overhead Counterweight
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| Image From "The Strauss Bascule Bridge Company, specialists on movable bridges : Bulletin no. 3, Bascule bridges" by the Strauss Bascule Bridge Company. Published 1910 via BridgeHunter, Public Domain: Published Prior to 1923 Also StraussBridgeCo Bridges Now and Then posted "Strauss trunnion bascule bridge across Swan Creek at Toledo, Ohio, for the Ohio Electric Railway Company. This bridge consists of three 64 ft. deck plate girder spans, the middle span being attached to a pair of lifting trusses and thereby counter-balanced and made movable." (The Strauss Bascule Bridge Company, specialists on movable bridges : bulletin no. 3, Bascule bridges. Strauss Bascule Bridge Company, 1910, Page 10.) Tom Kish: There are photos of an interurban nearly falling through this bridge when it was opened, sometime in the early 1900's. IIRC, the conductor claimed brake failure was the cause. |
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| Randy Studer commented on Bridges Now and Then post 1924 Plat Map.I think the right side map is pretty close. That is a great picture!! |
Did the NKP railroad share this bridge with the Ohio Electric Co.? The reason for the question is that the topo maps label the route NYC&StL, which is the Nickel Plate Railroad.
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| 1952 Toledo Quad @ 24,000 |
No, the NKP did not share that bridge. The Ohio Electric was gone by 1952. It paralleled the NKP.
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| 1900/32 Toledo Quad @ 62,500 |
At first I was confused about why the NKP would be in Toledo because the NKP mainline was significantly further south of Toledo. So I consulted a NKP map. That reminded me that, by 1952, NKP had bought the Cloverleaf Railroad and that the eastern terminus of that railroad was Toledo. Note the Cloverleaf Yard in the lower-left corner of this topo excerpt.
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| Map via NKPHTS via Dennis DeBruler |
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