ROAR
Lookin’ like 100-110%…
If he goes up that - hand 'em a bar of soap and a towel on the way by, all that’ll happen is the subway car gets a bath.
lift bridge crossing a river?
Obviously a cog railway. [:)]
I know! I know!
Making all kinds of local news now, but wait’ll next week; things will be fine for a while.
BC: WOW!
SJ
If the operator’s name is Elwood, it shouldn’t be a problem.
The grade might be manageable by electric traction - once it gets past that vertical curve kink ! [:-,]
[(-D] Thanks for sharing the photo and the thought !
- Paul North.
It’s not the grade, it’s the dropoff on the other side…
Looks like a lift bridge in the up position to me. Looking at the surrounding buildings it doesn’t make sense that it would have to rise like that unless its a railway to heaven.
Photoshop.
It is a draw bridge, not a lift bridge, but be that as it may, in the raised position you cannot see that those (across the river) are two separate buildings and the train passes between them on the elevated line.
Look through the lattice work of the bridge deck and you can see the corner of the building on the left.
I am told that the street is N. Wells, and the river the Chicago.
ROAR
What I do find interesting ts the bumper block side track which comes off the main here as a derail ( for lack of a better term) when the draw is up…I think, too, the long lens makes it look shorter than it is.
I notice that the points on the switch are thrown to the short siding, Is that to keep a motorman not paying attention from crashing into the raised bridge ? ( Not that crashing into the bumper would be much better )
Steve
As mentioned in an earlier post, it’s not a siding but a safety provision when the bridge is raised. There is a similar arrangement on the upper level of the Lake Street Bridge.
Watching the animation video of the work that is being done shows no pier in the middle of the bridge where the draw lifts from. Surely there must be a pier for the joint to rest on! Is there?
The bridges across the Chicago River have no center piers. Google images of Chicago River Bridges and you will get lots of very good pictures. No center piers to be seen.
Steve
The double-leaf trunnion bascule is a Chicago landmark, we have lots of them. No center pier but there is a locking mechanism between the two leaves when the bridge is in the lowered position.
There are a lot of road bridges…particularly along the Atlantic coast…which are draws like this…the arch is the support and apparently rests against the other side using lateral stress for support in the middle.