Tuesday, March 21, 2023

1909 Lost/(Ohio Electric and/or NKP) SOC Bridge over Swan Creek in Toledo, OH

(Bridge Hunter; Satellite)

SOC = Strauss Overhead Counterweight

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

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.
1952 Toledo Quad @ 24,000

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.
Map via NKPHTS via Dennis DeBruler






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