1930 CSX/B&O Curtis Creek Swing Bridge in Baltimore, MD

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

Street View, Aug 2025

2017 photo by Mike Singer via BridgeHunter
967' (295m) long bridge with a 345' (105m) swing span. The 6 steel-girder spans are 100' (30.5m) each.

Michael Cheek posted

The CSX Marley Neck Swing Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland viewed while I was out kayaking.

This bridge, completed in 1930, carries CSX (formerly B&O Railroad) freight train traffic over Marley Creek and serves the industrial and chemical plants along the Baltimore Harbor.—  feeling good at Marley Creek.

This map explains why Michael thought the bridge was over Marley Creek instead of Curtis Creek.

1949/54 Curtis Bay Quad @ 24,000

1945,2010 Ben Sawyer Bridge over Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway near Charleston, SC

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

The swing span was replaced on existing piers in 2010. [ArchivedBridgeHunter]

Paula Marie Warnick posted 0:27 video @ 0:08
The Little Boat that Could

They are making sure that it will be wide open by the time the sailboat gets to the bridge.

@ 0:20

It looks like the bridge is high enough to clear commercial barge traffic.

Emmett LaHay, Jul 2023

Steve Wasser, Mar 2018

So most boats can't block rush hour.

Charles Shoemaker, Apr 2017

Hugo 1989:

BridgeHunter

NOAA via BridgeHunter

Photo by Daniel McFarland via BridgeHunter

1889 New Bridge over Hackensack River at River Edge, NJ

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

Because the bridge is a boundary, the bridge is also at New Milford and Teaneck, NJ.

Metrotrails posted two photos with the comment:

Metrotrails Then and Now Series: Historic early view of the 1889 pony truss swing bridge over the Hackensack River at Historic New Bridge Landing, compared to the same scene on our 2023 hike.

The bridge is considered to be the oldest extant swing span bridge in the State of New Jersey.

This bridge, built at the narrows of the Hackensack River, and the head of schooner navigation, occupies the same site as the original 1744 "New Bridge" erected here.

In 1776, the "New Bridge" was critical in the withdrawal of the Continental Army from the Hudson River as the British were moving in. The British army decided against taking the new bridge, and in doing so rewarded American forces with a successful retreat. This is why some refer to this as the "Bridge that saved a nation", which was the title of Historian Kevin Wright's book on the topic.

Constructed by the King Iron Company, the current bridge served as a major connector between River Edge, Teaneck, New Milford, and New Bridge Landing until the last vehicles traveled across in 1956. A newer bridge was constructed just upstream.

Today, the old swing pony truss span is pedestrian only, and is utilized as part of the greater Hackensack River Greenway.

Deborah Powell: We include the bridge on tours and it’s important for commuters to reach the New Bridge Landing train station. Until 1790 the strategic bridge was the first bridge above Newark Bay on the Hackensack River. There was a stage coach that came through traveling to Hackensack even before the American Revolution.

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Metrotrails posted two photos with the same description as above.

Jay O'Brien: The river was that much lower in 56?

Metrotrails: Jay O'Brien The Hackensack river is tidal. It was definitely low tide at the old photo. I've been there many times when it was that low.

Metrotrails shared

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This view was taken from the replacement bridge.

Street View, Aug 2023

It has rivets, but it does not have gusset plates.

Kevin Morris, Aug 2024

I added the label "metalIron" since this bridge is made with iron instead of steel. 1889 is rather late for still using iron in a bridge.

Benjamin Mankowitz, Sep 2016

Tatiana Hoover, Oct 2024

The Historic New Bridge Landing Museum is on the west side of the bridge.

Steve Schwinn, Oct 2023

D Darko, Aug 2020

Digitally zoomed to Google Maps resolution

Mike Degrem, Jul 2025

SOC and 1951 Double-Swing Bridges over North Landing River at Chesapeake, VA

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

SOC = Strauss Overhead Counterweight

Douglas Butler posted
Credit to Will: Here is a 94 ft North Landing Strauss Overhead  Counterweight Bascule Bridge built in 1916 carrying Virginia Route 165 Mt Pleasant Rd near Chesapeake, VA was replaced with today's 1951 double swing bridge.

Ben Wocken, Aug 2019

You can barely see the second set of humps in the girders.

Street View, Aug 2011

For small boats, they open just one span. I've never seen a double swing span for such a narrow opening before. Maybe it is so they can half the wear on each span that they used it here.

Tim Brown, Aug 2020

Here they are both open.

Sancho Castro, Feb 2020

Because of the angle, we can barely see the span on the right.

Christine Heinsohn, Dec 2019

1930 Cotter and 1905 MNA/MoPac/SIMS Bridges over White River at Cotter, AR

Cotter: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; HAER; Satellite)

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

MNA = Missouri & Northern Arkansas

SIMS = St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern

Street View, Jul 2023

Bridges Now and Then posted
Cotter Bridge, Flippin, Arkansas. (Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.)
HAER ARK,3-COT,1--5
5. VIEW OF CENTER SPAN OF BRIDGE FROM RIVERBED, LOOKING SOUTHWEST - Cotter Bridge, Spanning White River at U.S. Highway 62, Cotter, Baxter County, AR

"Significance: The Cotter Bridge is the only bridge in Arkansas known to be designed and engineered by the Marsh Engineering Company, a significant twentieth-century bridge-building company. Among the largest they ever designed, it is also an excellent example of the company's patented Marsh Rainbow Arch. A unique feature of the bridge is that it was constructed by means of a cableway, suspended across the river, over which all materials were transported to various parts ofthe structure. The Cotter Bridge was instrumental in making accessible a new region of the Ozarks, an important recreational area in the United States. It became Arkansas' first National Civil Engineering Landmark in 1986." [HAER_data, at the end of that webpage are some blueprints for this bridge]

Fredrick Garcia via BridgeHunter_Cotter

Street View, Jul 2023

HAER ARK,3-COT,1--4
4. LOOKING NORTHEAST, GENERAL VIEW OF BRIDGE

HAER ARK,3-COT,1--10
10. VIEW OF BRIDGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, SHOWING CENTRAL ARCH AND PIERS, WITH CABLEWAY ABOVE AND TOWER ON BACKGROUND

HistoricBridges_Cotter

"While the nearby state of Kansas may have the greatest quantity of surviving Marsh type rainbow arch bridges in the country, it is this single surviving example in Arkansas that is ironically also the greatest Marsh arch bridge. This bridge's impressive height over the waterway, enormous arch spans over the river (complimented by a single small arch span over railroad tracks), and the overall multi-span layout of this bridge that all combine to form what is the most impressive and historically significant Marsh rainbow arch bridge in the entire country. In a very real sense this bridge also represents the ultimate aesthetic potential of concrete in bridge construction. From every angle that this bridge is viewed it projects a profound beauty that is unmatched in more simple concrete bridge forms.

"Beautifully preserved, this bridge remains in good condition today. Repairs and replacements made, such as railing and lighting, are respective of the original bridge design."

[This is one of the few bridges that HistoricBridges rates with two 10s.]

MoPac Swing Bridge

The swing span is now over an island! I wonder how much further upstream steamboats used to travel on this river.

Street View, Jun 2014

Back when the channel was under the swing span.

Photo by Fredrick Garcia via BridgeHunter_MoPac

Photo by Nicky Elmore via BridgeHunter_MoPac

HistoricBridges_MoPac
"This bridge is unusual because it is fairly high above normal water level for a swing bridge. Most boats would be able to fit under this bridge. Today, the bridge is even more unusual because with trees growing under one of the swing span arms, and shallow water under the other, it is clear this river has not been navigable for large boats for a very long time!"

Lost Bridge #20 over Welland Canal in Port Colborne, ON.

Lift: (Satellite)

Swing: (Satellite)

These bridges are (swing) and was (lift) on the Welland Canal.

John Greggio posted nine photos with the comment: "The Canadian National Railway Bridge (Bridge 20) Being Decommissioned 1997."

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The swing bridge:

Street View, May 2025

Barry Westhouse commented on John's post
An approach span consisting of a CN swing bridge on the west side of the canal remains in place, Bridge 21 (Clarence St) in the background. - I believe CSL Whitefish Bay is also in my photo - July 2018.