1903 Aban/WM Spring Garden Bridge

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

WM = Western Maryland

"Swing span currently locked in open position. Proposal has been made to semi-permanently close this draw span (which sits over heavily silted, now-non-navigable waterway) and incorporate it into local waterfront trail system." [ArchivedBridgeHunter]

Street View, Aug 2023

I captured this view as well because I was surprised that a big sanbar disappeared during a couple of years.

Street View, May 2021

Most of the bridge is still a wood trestle.

Street View, Nov 2020

Dave Galp posted three photos with the comment:

Being in the passenger seat of a tractor trailer for once allowed me to take these pictures of which I normally wouldn't be able to get them. 

Photos taken from I95 Northbound looking east over a mainly abandoned yard before Washington Blvd and the abandoned swing bridge over the Patapsco River. 

Baltimore MD

Tim Shanahan shared

Jim Kelling: Western Maryland Railway Spring Garden bridge, no longer in use, which led to the Port Covington docks.

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Anthony Vo: The old Mt Clare freight yard

[location, this was before he got to the swing bridge.]

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Photo via ArchivedBridgeHunter
Looking west from east end

I've never noticed WM on maps of Baltimore, so I went back to basics to see where it entered the city.

wmwestsub via Dennis DeBruler

Given that it came in from the northwest and Jim's comment about going to Port Covington Yard, I was able to find the WM route through town.

1953/53 Baltimore East and West Quads @ 24,000

Port Covington no longer has any freight business.

Satellite