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Burrard Inlet
The Second Narrows Rail Bridge is a vertical lift railway bridge that crosses the Burrard Inlet and connects Vancouver with the North Shore. As the name suggests, it is located at the second narrowing of the Burrard Inlet.
Vancouver, BC
Canada
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The Gillis William Long Memorial Bridge (alternatively known as the U.S. 165 Business Bridge, the Red River Bridge, or the Jackson Street Bridge) connects Downtown Pineville, Louisiana with the business district in Alexandria, Louisiana. It is a two-lane vertical-lift bridge with a sidewalk/bikepath on either side. The bridge is named after U.S. Representative Gillis Long, who represented Louisiana's Eighth Congressional District. It was built in 1985 to replace the Murray Street Bridge.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6 along with the final conversion to Black & White.
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Batemans Bay Road Bridge
A mid twentieth century engineering marvel.
A steel vertical lift truss two-lane bridge which was constructed across the River Clyde in 1956. The centre section (with the control hut) rises to allow ships to pass under the bridge. (2005-05-24).
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EDIT 2021:
Time marches on and this old bridge has been demolished and replaced.
www.rms.nsw.gov.au/projects/batemans-bay-bridge/index.html
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Other images I took of this wonderful old bridge appear in my Flickr Bridges Album: www.flickr.com/photos/ggreybeard/albums/72157668253489515
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The Meridian Highway Bridge is a bridge that formerly carried U.S. Route 81 across the Missouri River between Nebraska and South Dakota. The Meridian Highway Bridge connects Yankton, South Dakota with rural Cedar County, Nebraska. The Meridian Bridge is a double deck bridge, with the top level having carried traffic into South Dakota from Nebraska, and the lower level having carried traffic into Nebraska from South Dakota.
Vertical lift bridge double deck, Pratt through truss.
History
The bridge crosses the Missouri River, connecting Yankton, South Dakota to the north with Cedar County, Nebraska to the south. Prior to the construction of the bridge, traffic moved between these two points via a ferry service, started in 1870, and a seasonal pontoon bridge, first installed in 1890. The pontoon bridge was disassembled and rebuilt twice a year, once to float on open water, and once to be placed on solid ice. After a 1915 initiative to build a permanent bridge faltered with the U.S. entrance into World War I, a new effort was started by the Yankton Chamber of Commerce 1919. Though fundraising problems caused a temporary halt in 1922, the new bridge, featuring a movable span to allow for river navigation, was completed during the summer of 1924.
The dedication ceremony was held on October 11, 1924 and the bridge opened as a toll bridge. It was the last link of the Meridian Highway, which became U.S. Route 81, to be completed. It was designed for use by trains on the lower level of the bridge and vehicular traffic on the upper level; a lift mechanism allowed river traffic to pass below. However, trains never used the lower level. In 1953, all tolls were lifted and the two levels were converted to one-way traffic, northbound on the top, southbound on the bottom. In the 1980s, the lift mechanism and counterweights were removed, and the decorative iron railings on the upper level were replaced by Jersey barricades.
The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. 93000537
On May 9, 2008, a 10-ton gross weight limit was placed on the bridge after an inspection found corrosion on the gusset plates. It was replaced by the Discovery Bridge upon its opening on October 11, 2008, exactly 84 years after the dedication of the Meridian Highway Bridge.
The bridge was used as location for filming a scene of the 2016 film Until Forever.
Present and future use
With completion of the Discovery Bridge, the Meridian Bridge has been converted into a pedestrian/bike trail. The bridge reopened in November 2011 to non-motorized traffic only. A two block-long pedestrian plaza has been added.
The bridge spans the Missouri National Recreational River, a unit of the National Park Service created under the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.
(Wikipedia)
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The Second Narrows Rail Bridge is a vertical-lift railway bridge that crosses the Burrard Inlet and connects Vancouver with the North Shore. The bridge's south end connects directly to the Thornton Tunnel, which connects it to the main Canadian rail network.
Taken from, New Brighton Park,
Vancouver harbour, Burrard inlet, British Columbia, Canada,
Inner and Central harbours, Burrard inlet, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The Second Narrows Rail Bridge is a vertical-lift railway bridge that crosses the Burrard Inlet and connects Vancouver with the North Shore. The bridge's south end connects directly to the Thornton Tunnel, which connects it to the main Canadian rail network
In April 1997, high water on the Mississippi River reached the bottom of the span. The Union Pacific Railroad spotted a train of hopper cars laden with rocks on the bridge to help anchor it and keep it from being washed away.
Leaving the train weight on the bridge may not have been the best idea!!!!!
Nineteen years later the bridge is still in daily use, the main flow/force of the river is now deflected by lattice wooden fences
Still looks to me like the concrete has seen better days. Also the steel work has some rust issues, never mine what the eye does not see "Carry on regardless"
The West Pearl River Bridge in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, was completed in 1933. This vertical lift bridge is part of a unique group of historic truss bridges on US 90 connecting New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
The Kingsferry Bridge is a combined road and railway vertical-lift bridge which connects the Isle of Sheppey to mainland Kent in South East England.
Before the Sheppey Crossing bridge was built this was the only way on or off the Isle of Sheppey
Photography © Jeremy Sage
Un goéland et le pont de Recouvrance à Brest.
A seagull in front of the Recouvrance bridge in Brest, getting ready to fly away.
(Swedish: Hisingsbron) The bridge is a vertical-lift bridge, inaugurated in 2021.
Architects: Dissing+Weitling architecture, Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner.
The Broadway Bridge crosses the Harlem River Ship Canal between Inwood on Manhattan Island and Marble Hill in the Bronx.
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The Falls of the Ohio was a 2 mile stretch of rapids caused by the water cascading over numerous limestone ledges. The drop of the Ohio River over those 2 miles totaled 24 feet. CSX 2762 & CSX 2034 are crossing the Ohio River on the L&I RR Bridge.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Street_Bridge_(Ohio_River)
This is the Florence Bridge crossing the Illinois River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. The vertical-lift bridge opened in 1929.
The Second Narrows Rail Bridge is a vertical-lift railway bridge that crosses the Burrard Inlet and connects Vancouver with the North Shore. The bridge's south end connects directly to the Thornton Tunnel, which connects it to the main Canadian rail network. As the name suggests, it is located at the second narrowing of the Burrard Inlet.
Burrard Inlet, Vancouver harbour
Taken from North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
1979: In October, the Japanese freighter Japan Erica, carrying logs, collides with the bridge in a heavy fog, knocking a section of the bridge just north of the lift span into the water. The bridge is closed until March 4, 1980.
For my video; youtu.be/2IKzZmbiazw,
The Ironworker's Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, also referred to as the Ironworker's Bridge or the Second Narrows Bridge,
The Second Narrows Rail Bridge is a vertical-lift railway bridge that crosses the Burrard Inlet and connects Vancouver with the North Shore. The bridge's south end connects directly to the Thornton Tunnel, which connects it to the main Canadian rail network.
Taken from, New Brighton Park,
Vancouver harbour, Burrard inlet, British Columbia, Canada,