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An open-deck railway bridge in Leflore County, Mississippi. A railway bridge with its track and ties supported on load carrying elements of the superstructure (floor beams, stringers or girders) is called an open deck. When the track rests upon ballast, which is then carried by the superstructure of the bridge, it is called a ballasted deck.
In the deck-type bridge, a wood, steel or reinforced concrete bridge deck is supported on top of two or more plate girders, and may act compositely with them. In the case of railroad bridges, the railroad ties themselves may form the bridge deck, or the deck may support ballast on which the track is laid.
The bridge was originally the western terminus of the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad. Today, it serves the Keokuk Junction Railway with occasional train crossings for interconnection and river terminal services. Only the Keokuk side of the highway bridge has been converted, the bridge's upper highway deck is abandoned.
The deck height of a bridge is the maximum vertical drop distance between the bridge deck (the road, rail or other transport bed of a bridge) and the ground or water surface beneath the bridge span. Deck height is different from structural height, which is a measure of the maximum vertical distance from the uppermost part of a bridge, such as ...
The Chenab Rail Bridge, is a steel and concrete arch bridge carrying a single ... Key technical data of the bridge include: [13] Deck height: above river bed - 359 m ...
Lake Street Bridge – rail on upper deck (CTA Green & Pink Line) road on lower deck, bascule bridge. McKinley Bridge – rail removed in 1978. Wells Street Bridge – rail on upper deck (CTA Brown & Purple Line Express), road on lower deck, bascule bridge. Iowa – Illinois. Fort Madison Toll Bridge – rail on lower deck, road on upper deck
A railway line between Bristol and Taunton is closed due to bridge repairs. Network Rail said the closures will affect trains running via Bridgwater and will be in place until the early hours of ...
The Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge, listed as the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge on the National Register of Historic Places, is a double-deck steel truss railroad bridge spanning the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The upper deck carries the Fort Wayne Line with two tracks of Norfolk Southern and Amtrak traffic. The lower deck is unused.