. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . HE new bridge across the Calu-met River at South Chicago,was put into service on Monday,September 28th, 1914. Train. F. S. HARVP^V, RESIDENT ENGINEER No. 8, the first passenger train to use thethe new structure, crossed at bridge is the largest single leafBascule span in the world, the movablespan being 235 feet long. Thirteen hun-dred and fifty tons of structural steel, onehundred and fifty tons of machinery, andtwenty-two hundred tons of concretecounter weight go to make up this mon-ster piece of machinery. 52 In June, 1906, the City C
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . HE new bridge across the Calu-met River at South Chicago,was put into service on Monday,September 28th, 1914. Train. F. S. HARVP^V, RESIDENT ENGINEER No. 8, the first passenger train to use thethe new structure, crossed at bridge is the largest single leafBascule span in the world, the movablespan being 235 feet long. Thirteen hun-dred and fifty tons of structural steel, onehundred and fifty tons of machinery, andtwenty-two hundred tons of concretecounter weight go to make up this mon-ster piece of machinery. 52 In June, 1906, the City Council ofChicago passed an ordinance requiringthe Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to elevateits roadbed over the streets on each sideof the Calumet River. This would havenecessitated the raising of existing drawspan at the Calumet River, but in Jan-uary, 1910, the War Department of theUnited States Government ordered therailroads crossing the Calumet River atthis point to provide a better channel forthe passage of boats. A clear channel of140 feet was demanded in place of the oldchannel of eighty-five feet. This order,of course, made necessary the constr
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