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Eight - Track Railroad Bascule Bridge

 
West 31st Boulevard, Chicago, IL 606, United States of America
 
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Eight - Track Railroad Bascule Bridge is a minor waterways place on the Illinois Waterway (Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal) between Ship - Calumet Junction (Junction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal with the Calumet River) (16.93 miles to the southwest) and Loomis Street Bridge (1.53 miles to the east).
 
 
The nearest place in the direction of Ship - Calumet Junction is California Avenue Bascule Bridge; 0.41 miles away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Loomis Street Bridge is South Western Avenue Bridge; 0.14 miles away.

Mooring here is unrated.

There is a bridge here which takes a railway over the canal.

 
 
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[14th Street bridges] bridge became the "turnpike bridge" and the new one the "railroad bridge." For others the two bridges were referred to separately as the Long Bridge and [Niantic River Bridge] Niantic River Bridge, also known as Amtrak Bascule Bridge No. 116.74, is a railroad bridge carrying Amtrak's Northeast Corridor line across the Niantic [Amtrak Old Saybrook – Old Lyme Bridge] – Old Lyme Bridge is the last crossing of the Connecticut River before it reaches Long Island Sound. It is a Truss bridge with a bascule span, allowing [Housatonic River Railroad Bridge] New Haven and Hartford Railroad. The current bridge, a four-track steel with Warren through truss spans, Scherzer Bascule bridge, 1,072 feet (327 m) in [Swing bridge] Delaware (original two-track bridge replaced with a single-track bridge in 2003) Pennsylvania Railroad's South Philadelphia Branch Bridge over the Schuylkill [Pequonnock River Railroad Bridge] rolling bascule bridges on the New Haven Line. The bridge consisted of twin parallel rolling lift spans. It was one of eight legacy moveable bridges on the [Thames River Bridge (Amtrak)] through-truss bascule design, built in 1919. It was built by the American Bridge Company for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, replacing a [Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge] replacement bridge was completed in 1924 as the Badger Avenue Bridge (later renamed to Henry Ford Bridge), a double-leaf bascule bridge wide enough to [Construction of Arlington Memorial Bridge] occurred, and the construction of the bascule (or drawbridge) span was complex and lengthy. Even though the bridge was finished by January 1932, construction [NJ Transit Rail Operations] North Jersey Coast Line (bascule) Brielle Draw, Brielle (Manasquan River) – North Jersey Coast Line (bascule) Beach Bridge, Atlantic City (Beach Thorofare)
 
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