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| Street View, May 2025 |
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| Bau Chinh, Apr 2022 |
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| Mike Jolin posted Pic I took of bridge 15 (3rd and 4th Welland) canal at Welland. (I used a photo enhancing program to make it sepia) Bridge 13 was a railway bridge that was on the 3rd canal, built not long before work started on the 4th; since the railways paid for their own bridges, they weren't going to replace it, just a few years after completion. Strangely, originally, the channel only flowed on one side and the bridge was landlocked when open until the canal was widened, for the 4th , when the other side was dug and the bridge sat on an island when opened. Rob Sterne: I may be misunderstanding you here, but this bridge does not cross the 4th canal. The 4th canal is about 2 1/2 km to the east. Mike Jolin: Well, technically, I suppose that it no longer crosses the 4th canal, but, for us Wellanders, the canal downtown is still the TRUE 4th canal, besides, I never mentioned the bypass, I was giving it's history before 1973. |
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| Barry Westhouse commented on Mike's post I have this bridge in my photo collection (July/2018) taken from Canal Bank Rd. - Prince Charles Dr. on the west side of the old canal can be seen as the bridge on the far end of this through-truss swing bridge. |
I was going to skip this photo until I noticed how much the gusset plate and the top flange has rusted away. That strikes me as a little scary.
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| Giviner Onetime, May 2023 |
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