crescent news.com reports that state grant money has been givien to lower the roadway under the viaduct.going to be an interesting project.stay tuned.
stay safe
Joe
Last count I remember was high loads on trucks, 0, viaduct 5?
So what are they going to do about drainage?
HmmM…Don’t raise the bridge, lower the river. Can you say Smith & Lovelace (as in lift station)???
I imagine that bridge is an “ace” several times over. Some foundation engineer is about to tangle with a bearcat. It may be cheaper to replace the entire bridge with railroad forces and then dig it out.
ED and MC
according to the article 79 times the viaduct was hit between 1999 and 2009.It is in the odot budget but those are subject to change.Planned date for work is 2013.Stay tuned.
stay safe
Joe
Maybe it’ll hit an even hundred by the time it’s figured out.
79 to 0 ? I don’t think there’s anyone or any team in any sport that’s gone undefeated that long.
I can hear it now after the next encounter, in a Howard Cosell-type ‘New Yawk’ accent: [:-,]
"The win-nah - and still the world’s cham-peen of the heavyweight rail-and-truck division - the Clinton Street Viaduct ! Let’s hear it for the champ !‘’ (crowd roars its approval in the background) [swg]
Somebody selling tickets to ringside seats for the next match-up ? [:-^]
- Paul North.
For those (like me) who have no idea which Clinton Street is being discussed, the Crescent News is a publication in Defiance OH.
Dakguy sorry for not being specific.Paul we had a ringside seat for 18 years.Now we just listen for the dispatcher on the scanner.One episode included this comment.Dispatcher"are you or are you not a certified bridge inspector? if the train goes over and falls through we are both in trouble."
stay safe
Joe
Lat. / Long. of RR Bridge over Rt. 111 = S. Clinton St. in Defiance, Ohio, which is about midway between Toledo, Ohio and Fort Wayne, Indiana, per ACME Mapper 2.0 -
N 41.27918, W 84.36998
The bridge is wide - it has 2 tracks on it now, and looks like there was room enough for a 3rd back in the day - and is also pretty long, about 175 ft. as I see it. It’s a skew-type, at about 30 degrees to the street’s alignment. I can’t easily get to an oblique or ‘bird’s eye’ view to tell the specific type, though. Maybe I can find a photo on-line . . .
- Paul North.
EDIT: Link to an on-line version of the article referenced by Joe, which has an ‘enlargeable’ photo of a truck stuck under the bridge. It is a multi-span steel girder deck-type, with CSX tracks on it, even though the photo has a Santa Fe ‘warbonnet’ paint scheme leading the train in the background.
“City lands state grant for S. Clinton viaduct” by Todd Helberg, datelined November 1, 2010 -
Link to the only photo of the Clinton St. Viaduct that I could find ‘on line’ - by none other than our own Joe Kohnen [tup] [bow] dated as 10/08/10, at -
http://trainorderpix.com/images/Toledo/TO-JK-CSXY101-101110.jpg
from - http://trainorderpix.com/Toledo.htm - 7th row down, right-hand side.
I searched RailPictures.net and RRPictureArchives.net, but this was the only one I found.
- Paul North.
We have an underpass that low several miles from here. There are at least two highway signs warning of its presence in the mile approaching it, and there is also a sign at least two feet high and ten feet wide on the side of the bridge itself. The road is a secondary state highway with a 30mph speed limit. Despite all the signage, several semis a year manage to not fit under it. The thought that there are truckers out there with their minds that tuned off is scary!.