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Bridges 1 (Lakeshore Road Bridge), 3A (Carlton Street Bridge), 4 (Homer Bridge [Queenston Road]), 6 (Flight Locks Railway Bridge for Canadian National Railways), 19 (Main Street Bridge [Port Colborne]) and 19A (Mellanby Avenue Bridge) on the Welland Canal. Save for Bridges 3A and 19A, all of these were built during the late 1920s as part of the ...
There are three types of bascule bridge [1] and the counterweights to the span may be located above or below the bridge deck. The fixed-trunnion (sometimes a "Chicago" bascule) rotates around a large axle that raises the span(s). The Chicago bascule name derives from the location where it is widely used, and is a refinement by Joseph Strauss of ...
At that time, bascule bridges were built with expensive iron counterweights. He proposed using cheaper concrete counterweights in place of iron. When his ideas were rejected, he left the firm and started his own firm, the Strauss Bascule Bridge Company of Chicago, where he revolutionized the design of bascule bridges. [2] [3] [4]
Scherzer was the inventor of a refinement of the bascule bridge called the Scherzer rolling lift bridge. [1] [3] His last engineering work before he died, done in 1893, was the design of two of these rolling lift bridges in Chicago. His design pivots the bridge like a rocking horse. The friction is lowered because it is rolling friction.
The bridge is also known as The Jack-Knife because of its unusual method of opening. [1] Designed by Joseph Strauss and completed in 1911, this bridge is one of the first heel trunnion bascule bridges built in the United States and originally formed part of the Erie Railroad's main line. [1] [2]
Bascule bridges in the United States (2 C, 118 P) Pages in category "Bascule bridges" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
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The Erasmusbrug (English: "Erasmus Bridge") is a combined cable-stayed and bascule bridge. Construction began in 1986 and was completed in 1996. Construction began in 1986 and was completed in 1996. It crosses the Nieuwe Maas in the centre of Rotterdam , connecting the north and south parts of this city, second largest in the Netherlands .