. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXX. 114 Liberty Street, New York, January, 1911 No. 1 New Bascule Bridge at Deering Station, Chicago Bridge Erected With Minimum Traffic Interruption—Old Bridge in Service Until theLast Moment—Signal Arrangement of the New Bridge A few months ago the Chicago & Xorth diuble track, swing bridge of 176 ft. in of which were passenger trains. The Western Railway put in operation a new length supported on a pier in the middle river traffic, while not heavy, was su
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXX. 114 Liberty Street, New York, January, 1911 No. 1 New Bascule Bridge at Deering Station, Chicago Bridge Erected With Minimum Traffic Interruption—Old Bridge in Service Until theLast Moment—Signal Arrangement of the New Bridge A few months ago the Chicago & Xorth diuble track, swing bridge of 176 ft. in of which were passenger trains. The Western Railway put in operation a new length supported on a pier in the middle river traffic, while not heavy, was sufficient bridge over the Xorth Branch of the Chi- of the river. The old bridge, built in 1887, to require keeping one channel continu- cago River, at Deering Station, Chicago, was worn out, and it had become neces- ously available for navigation. This bridge is a Strauss steel trunnion sary to replace it with a bridge of great In addition to the increased facilities bascule bridge carrying three tracks. It er capacity and strength, on account of for handling the heavy railway traffic, the. cnic.\(;o & Ni K AILW A\ l; \>il|,K |;KI liUIDlii; IN 1 i; (i\i;k I lii. <ii II i<i\ i:k .skak I)i;i;ki.\(.. ; \ii-ic. w ; spans a channel of 145 ft., clear width be- the greater volume of traffic and the twecn fenders, crossing the stream at an heavy power now on this line, which is angle of 16 dcgs. THe rest pier and the the railways main line between Chicago front end of the movable span are skewed and Milwaukee. The railway traffic dur- so as to be parallel with the channel. ing construction consisted of about 200 The new structure replaces an old, trains every 24 hours, abnut 80 per cent. conditions for river navigation are greatlyimproved with the new bridge. .\ singlechannel, of 145 ft. clear width, replacesthe narrow channel on each side of theold center pier, and this channel was deep-ened to 215 ft. below the water level. The RA
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