Multiple Lift bridges...

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I have been watching railfaining videos on youtube lately.
This one has a very unique spot. It is in East Chicago.
It has 5 old double track lift bridges. Plus a newer single lift bride for a Steel Mill(?). Only two of the older bridges appear to be in use. One with both tracks open for the mainline. The other older bridge is single line.

https://youtu.be/RWNABQeeMec?t=17m40s

Here is google maps of the same location.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/4...m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d41.660236!4d-87.452029

I would have loved to have seen video of that area in its hayday.
Kenny
P.S. hey Philskene....

 

[bendorsey]

Hi Kenny:

If these are what I think they are I made 3 versions of them not too long ago. Kuid2:2101518:300451, 300452, and 300453.

They are called Ash Street Bridge 1, 2 and 3 (I think). Went over a canal but from what I was told there was very little boat traffic so they were kept in the lowered position. In the real world they could have been set up to either open one by one (separate bridge tenders) or all at the same time (one bridge tender). In Trainz the latter would be very difficult and would almost certainly need a separate script file.

More interesting is on one end of the 8 tracks coming from the bridges 3 tracks crossed them at a 90 degree angle (that will keep the crossing guard busy, lol).

Ben

 

[JCitron]

We have multiple lift bridges approaching North and South Stations in Boston.

Here's the North Station side with the bridges lowering for an approaching train. The bridges are usually, left up unlike in Chicago because the Charles River basin and Mystic River area is pretty busy.

https://youtu.be/at8S_EPxIb4

https://youtu.be/n34T_pmAoJA

A little bit more action crossing the draw bridges at North Station.

https://youtu.be/XB501L8LzvE

There was once a couple more of these, which I remember when I was a kid. They were all painted black at the time and that was the characteristic thing about North Station and South Station too. In the mid-1980s there was a pier fire which took the bridges out of commission for quite sometime. What we have today are the new replacements and two bridges shorter. What's unique too about these bridges is they are skewed too.

Here's South Station. This bridge crosses the Fort Point Channel. The Southside also had a unique New Haven signal bridge that was covered with beautiful semaphores. Sadly when South Station was rebuilt, all that went away.

Taken of course before the electrification and the Acela trains back in the New Haven days. The draw on the far right is now abandoned and where the old heavyweight coach is now a storage yard for the "T" subways.

John