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Burdekin River Rail Bridge is a heritage-listed former railway bridge on the Great Northern railway over the Burdekin River at Dotswood, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Henry Charles Stanley and built from c. 1896 to 1899 by Swanson Brothers.
The Norfolk Southern–Gregson Street Overpass, also known as the 11-foot-8 Bridge or the Can Opener Bridge, [a] is a railroad bridge in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Built in 1940, the bridge allows passenger and freight trains to cross over South Gregson Street in downtown Durham and also functions as the northbound access to the ...
Keokuk Rail Bridge, between Keokuk, Iowa and Hamilton, Illinois; La Crosse Rail Bridge, between La Crescent, Minnesota and La Crosse, Wisconsin; Louisiana Railroad Bridge, between Louisiana, Missouri and Pike County, Illinois; Newport Rail Bridge, between Inver Grove Heights and St. Paul Park, Minnesota
[1] [11] [12] Because of the corrugated surface provided by the troughs, the volume of track ballast required was half that of a traditional flat-decked bridge. [13] [14] The rails were not fixed to the bridge deck, instead lying directly on the ballast. The bridge deck is enclosed by low wrought-iron latticework parapets. [3] [8] [11]
The Chief William Commanda Bridge (French: Pont Chef-William-Commanda), formerly the Prince of Wales Bridge, is a pedestrian/cycling bridge and former rail bridge that spans the Ottawa River between Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. It connects the Trillium Pathway in Ottawa to the Voyageurs Pathway in Gatineau. [1]
90-foot (27.43 m) radii on the elevated 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Chicago 'L'. There is no room for longer radii at this cross junction in the northwest corner of the Loop. The minimum railway curve radius is the shortest allowable design radius for the centerline of railway tracks under a particular set of conditions.
Tsing Lai Bridge) (rapid transit, two tracks on each of the two levels) East Rail and a footbridge across Prince Edward Road West; Three bridges across Sha Tin Centre Street that are part of New Town Plaza I; Bridge between New Town Plaza I and Citylink Plaza and Sha Tin station across Tai Po Road — Sha Tin and East Rail
The distinctive rail structure is 22,996 feet (7,009 m) long and extends as rail viaducts well into the city on both sides of the river from the central spans. It has sometimes been described as the longest rail bridge in the US, but the nearby Norfolk Southern Lake Pontchartrain Bridge, at 5.8 miles (9.3 km), is considerably longer. The ...