Cori Willson posted two photos with the comment: "The West Shore Railroad crossed the Oswego Canal on this steam-operated vertical-lift bridge. The engine and its attendants occupied the small control house on top, which rode upward each time the cables rolled over the four large sheaves to raise the bridge span. This photograph was taken in the early 1880s. Within a few years, the coal sheds and stationary crane visible here (used for unloading canal boats) were replaced by modern coal pockets and a traveling steam elevator for distributing coal from the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company (see second photograph)."
EricGinny Baker: Where is this photo located? [no answer]
Lincoln Sander IV: The West Shore was completed in 1885.
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As Lincoln's comment suggests, Cori probably has the wrong railroad. The only railroads I could find near the Oswego Canal were New York Central & Hudson River, New York Ontario & Western and Delaware Lackawanna & Western.
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| 1900/00 Fulton and Oswego Quads @ 62,500 |
And the only place I could find any railroad crossing the the canal was in Oswego, NY.
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This bridge is on the correct angle, but it is way too high to be the bridge in the photos.
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| Street View, May 2012 |
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