1936-2011 Carolina Southern (CALA)/Atlantic Coast Line Bridge over Intracoastal Waterway near Myrtle Beach, SC

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

"Built 1937; Deemed unsafe 1987; Rehabilitated 1987-97; Reopened 2001; Closed 2011 due to a voluntary shutdown of the CSR....Built to carry single rail line on one side with roadway on other. Bridge repainted in last decade, formerly derelict and rusty, condemned by county." [ArchivedBridgeHunter]

This railroad route is owned by Horry County. [MyrtleBeachOnline]

Street View, Nov 2014

This view makes it obvious that it is a rolling bridge because we can see the rack that it rolls on.

Street View, Jan 2019

yahoo
"While the South Carolina Department of Transportation spent 10 years and millions of dollars repairing the bridge for its reopen in 2001, it would ultimately be the decision of Horry County if the bridge would be dismantled. SCDOT no longer has operation of the bridge."

Eric Kerper posted via Dennis DeBruler

1857 Main Street Bridge over Chagrin River in Chagrin Falls, OH

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter returns 403; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

HistoricBridges
The 115' (35.1m) long bridge has two spans of 40.7' (12.4m).
"This historic bridge is at risk for demolition and replacement!"
Structure Type: Stone Segmental Deck Arch, Fixed

Fortunately, it was not torn down.

DRONE OHIO posted two images with the comment:

The before's and after's of the Chagrin Falls Main St bridge project, renovated by the awesome Great Lakes Construction company!!! What are your thoughts on this project?

DRONE OHIO IS ALWAYS HAVING FUN!!!

Nana Puppies: Opened Saturday [Oct 25, 2025] about 1pm.

Jeff Holbury Sr shared with the comment: " Before's & After's of Chagrin Falls Main St Bridge!"

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The bridge is just upstream of the town's namesake waterfall.

HistoricBridges

The flow rate varies considerably.

Jason Feinberg (feinbros), Aug 2015

This seems to be a more typical flow.

Fred Martell, May 2023

Given this former diversion dam upstream of the bridge and the significant head of the waterfall, there must have been a millrace on at least one side of the river.

Street View, Apr 2023

It appears that the diversion dam was higher during the interesting turn of the century in order to create these mill ponds.

1906/55 Chagrin Falls Quad @ 62,500

The well-preserved Italianate architecture might indicate that the town was prosperous in the 19th Century, fell on hard times in the 20th Century after steam and electric power was developed and then got rediscovered in the 21st Century.

Street View, Apr 2023

Street View, Apr 2023

CPKC/Reading Wye Bridges over Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, PA

Stone: (no Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Girder: (Satellite)

I can't believe that neither Bridge Hunter nor Historic Bridges has documented at least the stone arch bridge.

Lou Caruso posted
Bridge over Schuylkill River, East Falls, Philadelphia

Because of the Falls Bridge trusses in the background of the above photo, it was easy to identify the location of these bridges.

Mark Henninger, Jun 2020

Only the stone arch bridge appears in an 1893 topo map. The steel girder bridge also appears in an 1894 topo map.

1893/93 Germantown Quad @ 62,500

1894/1961 Germantown Quad @ 62,500

Dakota C, Mar 2023

Dakota C, Mar 2023

CPKC owns the bridges. But CSX owns the eastern route.

arcgis

1857-1963 B&O #18, #19 (Silver Run) and #20 Tunnels west of Cairo, WV

#18: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Satellite?) daylighted

#19: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Satellite)

#20: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Satellite) daylighted

This B&O route is now the North Bend Rail Trail.

#18 Tunnel

This must have been a short tunnel because the topo map doesn't show it, Bridge Hunter has the wrong location, and I could not find a cut (daylighted tunnel) on the satellite map between Tunnel #19 and Tunnel #17.

#19 Tunnel

Mike Tewkesbury posted two photos with the comment:

The Silver Run Tunnel (#19), west of Cairo WV, built 1853-55 for the B&O Railroad. For many years crews and operators alike reported seeing the specter of a dark haired woman wearing a white dress roaming along the railroad tracks at Silver Run. Legend has it that she frequented the right of way on the blackest of nights searching for her lost lover from long ago. In its day, there was no location as remote as the outpost of Silver Run. It was said that the operators, who manned the station during the dead of night, felt as though they were the last people on earth.

Now part of the North Bend Rail Trail

[This was posted on Halloween, Oct 31, 2025.] 

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Because of the severity of the error in the topo map below, it is nice to have this confirmation of the tunnel number.

Greg Snprone, Oct 2024

Tom Neville, Jul 2025

This lighting clearly shows the brick lining.

Sara R, May 2023

#20 Tunnel

One side of the cut is still bare so this daylighted tunnel was easy to spot.

Satellite

And this corresponds with the tunnel marked on the left side of this map excerpt. The route around Silver Run Station is wrong, and thus Tunnel #19 is not shown. The tunnel on the right hand of the excerpt in Tunnel #17. I included it to show that there is no Tunnel 18 marked between #17 and #19.

1907/07 Harrisville Quad @ 62,500

1855+56+69+72+1910-72 Polk Street SUC Bridge on South Branch

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

SUC = Strauss Underneath Counterweight

Image via BridgeHunter
"Built 1910 to replace 1872 swing bridge; removed 1972"

The Polk Street Bridge is in the raised position in this photo. Obscured by the smoke on the left was the Pennsy Freight House, the tall building north of Polk Street was the Marshal Field River Warehouse and the buildings on the right are more freight houses.

History's Mirror posted
[I'm not copying the description because it is an example of AI gone wrong. Basically, if a statement is not a platitude, it is wrong. The dredge is in the old channel, not the new one. And "Polk and Taylor Streets" implies an intersection, but they are parallel streets. The photo below shows that the photo was taken from Taylor, and we are looking at Polk Street Bridge.
But it is a great photo of the freight houses and of Polk Street Bridge.]
Franklin Campbell shared
Dennis DeBruler: The dredge is digging in the old channel, not creating the new one. But this is a terrific photo of Polk Street Bridge.

This photo confirms that the train shed that we see in the above photo was for the Grand Central Terminal. And because it includes the Pennsy freight house, I could confirm the streets as Taylor looking at Polk.

B&O C&O Grand Central, Chicago Terminal 1890-1971. posted via Dennis DeBruler

[Taylor Street is at the bottom and Polk Street is the next one upstream.]

We are look West because that is the Marshal Field River Warehouse on the right.

DN-0056536, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum via BridgeHunter

ForgottenChicago
The first swing bridge was built in 1869. That one was destroyed by the 1871 fire so a second swing bridge was built in 1872. The trunnion bridge was built in 1910, and it was designed by Joseph Strauss. The Marshall Field River Warehouse was built in 1904.The postal service acquired the warehouse in 1974 and removed it 20 years later to make room for their new post office.

Chicagology

King Iron Bridge Co., 1874 Catalog via Chicagology
The 1872 bridge was a tubular wrought iron swing bridge.

1895 Dunn's Bridge over Kankakee River in Porter County, IN

(Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Street View, May 2024

The river was running high in May 2024. Here it is lower.

Street View, Oct 2022

PorterCountyParks

"The origin of Dunn's Bridge County Park has become the stuff of legend. Most historians agree that the bridge was built by a farmer named J.D. Dunn, whose property was bisected by the Kankakee River. But beyond that, the facts are a bit murky. Some say the bridge was built in the mid-1890s using steel beams salvaged from the 1893 Colombian Worlds Fair in Chicago. Others contend the bridge was built using pieces of the original Ferris Wheel, which premiered at the fair and was dismantled after the 1904 Worlds Fair. 

"Porter County Parks and Recreation purchased the 180-foot-long bridge and surrounding three acres in 1994, and undertook the award-winning restoration that helped land the bridge on the National Register of Historic Places. The bridge offers the only designated public access to the Kankakee River in Porter County, allowing fishermen and paddlers to launch their boat here and enjoy the beautify natural surroundings. Those who enjoy fishing can cast for walleye, bass, crappie, bluegill and Northern Pike, among others. In 2016, the Kankakee River was designated a national water trail."

HistoricBridges

Bridges Now and Then posted, also HistoricBridges and PorterHistory
“Construction of Dunn's Bridge over the Kankakee River, year unknown.” (Meyer's The Story of Kankakee Township, 1979)

Glenn Lemenager: Anyone have any idea where that might have been?

Dennis DeBruler: Glenn Lemenager Still exists: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jmeR1Umbi6yfoEzM7 in Dunn's Bridge County Park, https://www.portercountyparks.org/dunns-bridge.

This is another of the five historical images that HistoricBridges has.

PorterHistory
Postcard image of auto race crossing Dunn's Bridge postmarked in 1915.

"Source: Collection of Steven R. Shook.

"It is probable that the bridge trusses did indeed originate from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, but more likely from one of the domed or barrel-arched structures that were dismantled after the exposition. One persistent theory is that the arches were obtained from the dismantled Administration Building from the World's Columbian Exposition."

PorterHistory

 Administration Building, World's Columbian Exposition in

Chicago, 1893. The arches used to construct the dome

of this building may have been used to construct Dunn's Bridge.

Source: Official Views of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Plate 23.

1917,2010 Bridge of Lions over Matanzas River in St. Augustine, FL

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

According to a Google Maps label, the lion statues are made with marble.

Street View, Jul 2024

Because of sailboat masts, the closed clearance becomes important. It is 18' (5.5m) with an additional 4' (1.2m) in the center. [WaterwayGuide]

Street View, Jul 2024

2012 photo by Pedro Rezende via ArchivedBridgeHunter
"Built 1927; reopened March 16, 2010, following a lengthy rehabilitation"

They built a temporary bridge with a lift span for use during the rehabilitation.

2006 photo by James Baughn via BridgeHunter

HistoricBridges
"To someone who has visited many historic movable bridges, one of the most interesting items on the bridge is the retention of fully functional historical style swing gates. The predecessors to the modern automatic gates found on bascule bridges, swing gates are rarely found on surviving historic bascule bridges, and those that do survive rarely operate. In the case of this bridge, the swing gates are fully operational and close when the bridge is raised, and include a bell that rings. Modern gates are also present further back which also operate during a bridge left and meet modern safety codes.
"During rehabilitation, an enormous temporary Bailey truss vertical lift bridge was erected to carry traffic on this important roadway. In its own way, this interesting adaptation of the infinitely adaptable Bailey truss is an interesting engineering feat in itself."

They not only built a temporary lift span, they built a lot of temporary piers and approach spans.

2007 comment by Brian and Jennifer Ross in ArchivedBridgeHunter

This confirms that they built new approaches and they removed many of the piers of the old bridge. About the only thing they kept were the bridge towers.

Google Earth, Jan 2008

John Merriam posted
Sunrise fishing at St Augustine's Bridge of Lions.  The Vilano Causeway is in the distance as well.— in St. Augustine, Florida.